La Favela partida : Politiques interventionnistes et gentrification dans la favela de Rocinha

Abstract

For the past thirty years, the Rocinha favela, a self-built district of Rio de Janeiro, has been the subject of interventionist public policies, first of all urbanization policies and since 2011 of security policies with the pacification. These policies have gradually transformed the district, its population, its structure and its operating methods. The new populations settled within the district imported their lifestyles there, thus creating a phenomenon of gentrification and transforming the processes of domination, especially racial and social domination, within the favela. In this article, we are talking about a favela partida (divided favela) re-adaptation of the concept of cidade partida in order to illustrate the change of the domination processes inside the favela and the unequal distribution of the population on the territory caused by the interventionist policies of the State.

Keywords

• interventionist policies
• favela
• gentrification
• domination
• Favela Partida