In this article we take as a starting point the idea that one of the main “legacies” left by the “pacification” process governed by the Pacifying Police Units since 2008 was the increase of surveillance devices in the favela territories of Rio de Janeiro. The general objective of this work is to map uses, criticisms and controversies in dynamics of (counter)surveillance in “pacified” favelas. We focus our atten...
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Impoverished and segregated territories have been globally converted into tourist attractions eliciting ethical debates around the association between leisure and poverty. Many tourists who consume the touristic poverty do not ignore these debates and publicize their reflections on such experience through their travelblogs. This article examines the imagetic and discursive aspects of four blogs which present na...