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Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro Reprint Edition
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Perlman discovers that while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel more marginalized than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation--decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts will fail to resolve the fundamental issues. Foreign Affairs praises Perlman for writing "with compassion, artistry, and intelligence, using stirring personal stories to illustrate larger points substantiated with statistical analysis."
- ISBN-100199836833
- ISBN-13978-0199836833
- EditionReprint
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions1.3 x 6.1 x 9.1 inches
- Print length448 pages
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"With a scope that betrays her passion for her subjects, Perlman easily oscillates between narrative and statistical analyses, reporting on touching personal events as well as on larger issues of violence, marginality, and globalization. Perlman is as curious as she is thorough, providing exhaustive research and succeeding in supplying a cohesive and often awing account of the complexities and humanity in Rio's favelas." --The Global Journal
"A valuable and vivid study of life as it has been lived by the poor in one of Latin America's biggest cities." --Times Literary Supplement
"Janice Perlman is one of the leading researchers on urban marginality, and Favela is an exceptional analysis of the evolution of several originally informal settlement over four decades. I highly recommend it as reading for students, urban practitioners, and policy makers." --Manuel Castells, author of The Information Age
"Janice Perlman has written a moving account of her experience over four decades studying, living and working in three of Rio's favelas. This work will appeal to academics--it is full of fine analytical work, as well as to the reader who is concerned with understanding poverty and social justice and how millions in Brazil are trapped by their environment, lack of education and now by crime and violence. While the location of this work is Rio, the lessons and challenges of poverty in big cities is of importance to us all, as the world moves to 2050 when 75% of the population will be in urban areas." --James D. Wolfensohn, Former President, The World Bank
"Perlman has produced an excellent, exhaustive study of life in the 1,020 favelas- squatter settlements in Rio de Janeiro..." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Enlightening and exceptional." --Library Journal
"Perlman seeks to recover stories of people and families with whom she had contact in the late 1960s. As such, her work offers a great contribution, since she incorporates a longitudinal analysis over a long time span... Perlman's narrative is pure delicacy and poetry when she portrays slums as places where friendship, affection, and popular culture prevail." --Contemporary Sociology
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (September 1, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0199836833
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199836833
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 1.3 x 6.1 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,021,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Janice Perlman is President and Founder of the Mega-Cities Project. Winner of a Guggenheim Award, she has been Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley, Visiting Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Columbia University, and a Senior Research Scholar at New York University.
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However, the only reason that I do not give it five stars is due to the misspellings of nearly all Portuguese terms that she uses throughout the book. I would assume that a scholar who would write a book about Brazil would at least have a Brazilian editor to revise the language. In a way, as a foreigner, I feel that it is essentially a disrespect to write about such an intimate Brazilian topic, in such an intimate manner, and yet not bother to have a Brazilian actually read it before you publish it. It really brought down my respect for the work because it shows the disregard for the input of the local scholars in this publication. I continue to assign this book, but certainly am hoping that this "reprint" edition has the issues fixed.
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Firstly, though a certain level of righteous anger at the existence of the poverty of the Favelas citizens and sympathy towards their plight is understandable, `Favela' is all too often a one-sided polemic. Perlman criticises anyone outside of the favelas; perhaps most notably the Police whom she brands as both afraid of action, and willing to kill indiscriminately; as well as alleging them to be both failing to stop favela traffickers, and then complaining of the social unfairness when these traffickers are duly arrested by the police. Perlman also ignores positive Government reforms offered in the favelas, focusing wholly on their failure to solve other, complex problems in the favelas, and refers back to the Government making the favelas a place of "urban marginalisation"; something that has been increasingly less the case since Brazil's dictatorship collapsed; suggesting she is still stuck in the mindset of the 1970s in which her previous work on Rio, `The Myth of Marginality', was written. These are just a few of many examples of Perlman's bias, which bring the text as a whole into disrepute. Perlman herself also appears very self-centered in the text, constantly referring back to herself at every turn, and often focusing more on herself, than on the surroundings she is investigating. Whilst a certain amount of explanation of how to conduct research is necessary, Perlman also constantly repeats her methods for conducting surveys, which greatly breaks up the narrative flow. Equally, the interviews with the favela residents, which are interesting reading in themselves, see Perlman take everything they say at face value, often without seeing the need for statistics to back these claims up; and treats any statement by authority, or by the wealthy, with the opposite effect.
Overall, despite a few interesting interviews, some useful and startling stats, and a few good pieces of advice on conducting urban research (sadly repeated ad infinium); this is a very frustrating, one-sided and, bizarrely, self-centered work. In her attempts to provide a portrait of the downtrodden urban poor, Perlman has gone too far onto one side of the argument, and produced a work which is both repetitive, and often far from credible. Sadly, this is not a work worthy of the important and relevant social issues it deals with. For academics on the subject, this might be worth a glance through for the brief histories of the favelas, and maybe a few statistics, but overall, I'd suggest giving this work a miss.