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Nuclear Weapons and the Brazilian Case | Smoke & Stir

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What I’m Reading. Nuclear Weapons and the Brazilian Case. By taylormarvin on August 7, 2014. Argentine Mirage III aircraft, via Francisco Infante and Wikimedia. First off, my apologies for the long absence — I recently moved and started a new job, neither of which are conductive to regular writing. Today I have a piece at. Political Violence at a Glance. The 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco. During the country’s period of dictatorship, Argentina nearly went to war with Chile over Beagle Channel islands. The sho...

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Hunting White Elephants / Caçando Elefantes Brancos: 11/1/14 - 12/1/14

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Critical reflections on Brazil 2014 and Rio 2016. Intro to the blog. As I mentioned some months ago, I will be leaving Brazil for Switzerland in January of 2015, joining the. Research Unit in the. Department of Geography at the University of Zurich. As of January 1, I will be the editor of the. Journal of Latin American Geography. So let´s got those manuscripts rolling in. OBobo has started an editorial line to convince people that. 8220;Maracanã lotado” is less than the number of people murdered e...

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Hunting White Elephants / Caçando Elefantes Brancos: 2/1/14 - 3/1/14

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Critical reflections on Brazil 2014 and Rio 2016. Intro to the blog. With a tip of the hat to Andrew Downie). The Utopia of Rio in 2014. The closer we get to the Cup the more local populations will be treated as insurgents / rebels. Rio de Janeiro might be turning into a Death Star that holds its own people in tortured poses while it reconfigures urban space to maximize the flow of capital into private hands. Posted by Christopher Gaffney. Links to this post. Copa do Mundo 2014. The CBF hasn´t offer...

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Hunting White Elephants / Caçando Elefantes Brancos: 3/1/14 - 4/1/14

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Critical reflections on Brazil 2014 and Rio 2016. Intro to the blog. We discovered this week that airplanes will not be adding to this noise. As a “security measure” all airports within a 7 km radius. Of WC elephants will be closed for up to seven hours before and during matches. Why 7 km? The Lord Mayor Eduardo II of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro decreed. Public holidays on all WC game days, cancelled all permits for cultural events between May 22 and July 18, and suspended all public works projects.

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Hunting White Elephants / Caçando Elefantes Brancos: 11/1/13 - 12/1/13

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Critical reflections on Brazil 2014 and Rio 2016. Intro to the blog. Dengue, Dudu, Dirceu. Now a UNESCO heritage site but always projected as a landscape. Frontier for capital accumulation. Still believing the Brazil hype? Century landscape painting hung on Brazil´s front door. Dengue is still a major problem in Brazil, particularly in 6 of the World Cup host cities ( doubling of deaths since 2010 and. For the World Cup there is a thing called the Matrix of Responsibilities. Stopping the bombast would ma...

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Hunting White Elephants / Caçando Elefantes Brancos: Global Parties, Galactic Hangovers @ Los Angeles Review of Books

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Critical reflections on Brazil 2014 and Rio 2016. Intro to the blog. Global Parties, Galactic Hangovers @ Los Angeles Review of Books. Playing in four semi-finals of the last six World Cups would be considered a major accomplishment. But not for Brazil. The 1938 World Cup, football. Defining characteristic of the country. Ince the 1970s, there has always been an expectation that Brazil. And Neymar will provide. In the 2014 World Cup semi-finals, however, the visiting German national team. And yet, a.

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Tracking Favela Issues After the Rio Olympics | Queens in Rio

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Was successfully added to your cart. Tracking Favela Issues After the Rio Olympics. By Abby Laine Faber, Ella Fox & Hiwot Hailu. August 20, 2016. An increased awareness of favelas in Rio de Janeiro may be one informational legacy of the Olympic Games. A website called RioonWatch.org. Is continuing to keep track of favela issues after the departure of visitors. Is creating a toxic environment for the citizens of Rio — especially the residents of favelas. Urbanists, architects, urban planners were incredib...

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Pacification

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You are here: Home. April 5, 2014. This photo-essay by documentarian Luiz Baltar was first published on RioOnWatch.org. And is republished with permission. I have never accepted the term pacification. Adopted as a slogan by the government and repeated all over the media. By consensus, peace is a desired state of mind and something that can be achieved individually or collectively. It is often confused with abundance, since we cannot have peace until we satisfy our basic needs. We can clearly state that p...

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Galleries | Düzce hope homes

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Paticipatory Design and Construction for the Earthquake Victims Housing Cooperative. On the Road from Istanbul to Düzce. A – Z Participation. Asian Centre for Housing Rights. Project for Public Spaces. Shack / Slum Dwellers International. TED Talks on Urban Planning. Here you can find image galleries on Düzce. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.