ST 2 MUSEUM OF THE MARE: NEW REPERTOIRES OF CONSTETATION IN THE FAVELAS OF RIO DE JANEIRO
Izabel Torres Cordeiro Rennó
Ministério das Cidades
Resumo
Identities are constructed by culturally produced images through which
different individuals identify themselves and are identified by others. While the resistance
background of slum dwellers offers significant sources for their self-identification,
favelas are usually seen by other citizens as pockets of poverty and violence lacking any
positive contribution to the city. The stigma of “favelado” is so deeply-rooted that even
the residents of areas that had been subject of regularization programs remain stigmatized
as second-class citizens long after the settlement have been upgraded (Fernandes and
Smolka, 2004).
