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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Main Author: Laura Jouve-Villard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2014-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/13245
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-37beac104cea43f89552f3fa3b3896632025-08-20T02:13:20ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352014-12-01310.4000/belgeo.13245L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de JaneiroLaura Jouve-VillardSince 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.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/13245cultural heritageRio de JaneiroSambodromeCarnivalsambaPraça Onze
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Sambodrome
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samba
Praça Onze
title L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de Janeiro
title_full L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de Janeiro
title_fullStr L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de Janeiro
title_full_unstemmed L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de Janeiro
title_short L’espace insulaire du carnaval des écoles de samba de Rio de Janeiro
title_sort l espace insulaire du carnaval des ecoles de samba de rio de janeiro
topic cultural heritage
Rio de Janeiro
Sambodrome
Carnival
samba
Praça Onze
url https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/13245
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