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Volume 9, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2050-9790
  • E-ISSN: 2050-9804

Abstract

Since 2013, the cultural–historical project Rolé Carioca has encouraged residents of Rio de Janeiro to reconnect with their city. Focusing on the project’s walking tours, this article examines how Rolé Carioca navigates a neo-liberal context to encourage residents of Rio to return to the street from the fortified enclaves to which they have retreated for business, leisure and housing and to visit long-denigrated areas of the city, such as its suburbs. This article elucidates the infrastructures Rolé Carioca uses to transform areas of Rio into sites of leisure for its walking tour participants. It argues that the project pursues its aims by encouraging participants to engage with their city in ways akin to, but subtly different from the of the nineteenth century. It also probes the history and paradoxes of the means by which Rolé Carioca seeks to reconnect those who attend its events with Rio.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Cambridge Trust, Newnham College and Santander Mobility
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Fear, funding and fans: Rolé Carioca’s walking tours and infrastructures of flânerie
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 9, 131 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00052_1
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Keyword(s): city; neo-liberalism; play; reconnection; Rio de Janeiro; space

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