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creators_name: Anciaes, PR
title: Book Review: Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter Settlement by Charles J. Fortin
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F44
keywords: Informal settlements
note: This is an Open Access article published under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
abstract: Now that the FIFA World Cup has started, it will be easy to forget the news of the few past months about police incursions into informal settlements (favelas) in some of the Brazilian cities that organize the event. And in Recife, the capital of the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, all eyes will be on the football stadium hosting the matches and not on the favelas that house 23% of the city’s population, the 4th largest percentage in the country. Charles J. Fortin’s book, Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa is the story of one of these favelas. The first part of the name is an allusion to Brazil’s capital city, but why stubborn? Because the residents have occupied the area and managed to remain there for over 50 years during a period of fast urban growth, escaping the fate of other similar areas where the population was evicted and the houses demolished to make way to upscale housing
date: 2014-06-20
date_type: published
publisher: LSE Review of Books
official_url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/06/20/book-review-rights-of-way-to-brasilia-teimosa-the-politics-of-squatter-settlement/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1758350
lyricists_name: Anciaes, Paulo
lyricists_id: PRANC25
actors_name: Anciaes, Paulo
actors_id: PRANC25
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
citation:        Anciaes, PR;      (2014)    Book Review: Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter Settlement by Charles J. Fortin.    [Digital scholarly resource].               https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/06/2... <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/06/20/book-review-rights-of-way-to-brasilia-teimosa-the-politics-of-squatter-settlement/>       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091700/1/Anciaes%202014%20Book%20Review%20-%20The%20Politics%20of%20Squatter%20Settlement.pdf