Results of the War in/on Rio:
- Militarization and polarization
- Fragmentation and funneling
- Gentrification and speculation
(and spectaularization)
Baseline conditions
- a generation of neo-liberalising politics / policies
- a decade of mega-events
- extreme social divides produce counter-insurgency warfare
- absence of a social contract
- mega-events as moment of heightened tension + consolidation
- no consensus, resolution through "just conflict"
Fools' Gold: the urban geo-politics of Rio 2016
Professor Visitante
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
Christopher Gaffney
ctgaffney@id.uff.br
www.geostadia.com
@geostadia
Occupation and Appeasment
Maré, Rio de Janeiro, April 2014
The players and their fields
Accumulation by Dispossession
Shocks and exceptions
Media and Public Relations
Tactics and techniques of conquest
discourse, consensus and ideology
capital interests; sports, business, media alliance;
advertising + rights
political coalitions and individual actors
geo-political objectives:
- market expansion
- territorial control
- capital accumulation
- consolidate power
Combatants and Civilians
Cartography by Jake Cummings, 2013
asfalto, morro:: centro, periferia
Physical Restructuring
collusion, permission, co-dependency, transgression, votes
State-led real-estate speculation
Armed factions
(Drug traffic, Military Police, Civil Police, Federal Military, militias)