L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de Janeiro
Since Rio de Janeiro has been elected host city for the next Olympic Games in 2016, an increased attention is pointed on its docks, currently in the full heart of an urban reconversion after about thirty years of desertion which have left hectares of industrial wasteland and empty urban spaces. In R...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Belgeo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/13245 |
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| Summary: | Since Rio de Janeiro has been elected host city for the next Olympic Games in 2016, an increased attention is pointed on its docks, currently in the full heart of an urban reconversion after about thirty years of desertion which have left hectares of industrial wasteland and empty urban spaces. In Rio, as well as in other harbour cities in the world which have been the scenes for similar revitalization programs, the segmentation of the urban space by projects has led to a media and political overinvest of some districts, and to a disinvestment of the ones which don’t belong to the limits of the urban change planning. It is the case of the Sambodromo’s district, this huge avenue receiving each year the samba schools parade and about 70,000 spectators. Constructed in the territory known as the birthplace of samba and Rio carnival, the Sambodromo and its district have always been very little invested from the urban planning as well as from the cultural and patrimonial public programmes. From an ethnographic inquiry conducted in 2011 and 2012 during the construction works of a « New Sambodromo », I propose in this article to replace this cultural equipment in the musical and festive topography of Rio, and to question its impact onto the social and cultural life of its district. |
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| ISSN: | 1377-2368 2294-9135 |