The Favela in the City-Commodity: Deconstruction of a Social Question

Author(s):  
Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro ◽  
Marianna Olinger
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Author(s):  
María Dolores Lorenzo Río

En este artículo exploramos las “buenas intenciones” de un grupo de filántropos, empresarios liberales, seculares y reformistas que, con el argumento de impulsar la modernización urbana, propusieron desplazar a los limosneros de las calles centrales de la Ciudad de México para contenerlos en el Asilo Particular para Mendigos, fundado en 1879 y ubicado en la periferia urbana. Si bien las obras de la filantropía suelen estudiarse como formas de financiamiento del arte y la cultura o bien como respuesta para la educación y la higiene de los pobres, en este artículo nos centramos en el interés de los filántropos por fomentar el comercio y el ordenamiento urbano, a través de un proyecto asistencial. Asimismo, proponemos una definición acotada de la filantropía secular y sus características que pueden estudiarse a partir del caso específico del Asilo Particular de Mendigos y de las prácticas filantrópicas que le dieron sentido al interés público a finales del siglo XIX. Para sustentar este trabajo consultamos los informes de la Junta de Beneficencia Pública y los informes de las Actas del Consejo del Asilo, prensa periódica y otras fuentes, destacamos de éstas un documento peculiar sobre un estudio de las rutas que los mendigos recorrieron por la ciudad y que le dieron el sustento razonado a esta forma de filantropía en la Ciudad de México. Modern philanthropy used public interest as an argument for intervention in “social question”. The critical point of this text argue how "disinterested" were the "good intentions" of a group of philanthropists, liberals, secularists and reformists who, under the argument of urban modernization, sought to displace beggars from the streets to contain them in the Asilo Particular para Mendigos, founded in Mexico City in 1879. We show the social composition of the founding group and the many meanings on their social actions. We explore a peculiar research elaborated on the routes the beggars traveled through the city, that gave the reasoned support to the foundation. Using the “well-intentioned” argument of helping the poor, philanthropists exerted their influence on urban planning provisions, in addition to mitigating social tensions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 127-153
Author(s):  
Pablo Baisotti

This article presents an overview of Buenos Aires, city and neighbourhoods, from the viewpoints of several authors who participated in the literary life of the 1920s and 1930s, portraying the evolution of modernity and the social question –inequalities. Novels, short stories, poems and magazines from the period in question were used to frame these issues and unravel the objectives set. It concludes by exposing the variety and diversity of the city and the neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, as well as the people who inhabited them and the Buenos Aires literary currents of the period, headed by Jorge Luis Borges, on the one hand (Florida group), and Roberto Arlt (Boedo group), on the other.


TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
Isaia Sales

- Some aspects of local culture and practices, including planning practices, connected with the camorra (mafia of the Campania region) emerge in the origin and development of the outer districts of Naples and in its social question. Naples does not have ‘one' outer district, as in the standard European urban model, but has a new post earthquake outer ring next to the city centre, historically an occasion for the reproduction and metamorphosis of the camorra. It is not by chance that one characteristic of Neapolitan culture in the past was social promiscuity, which while it lies at the origin of the camorra's control, is also a factor in the growth of the poorest groups in society. This belief is reflected in proposals to redefine the city centre of Naples as a university campus and the student population as a means of social mixing and economic revitalisation of the city centre.


2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Garnier

Amplamente midiatizadas e dramatizadas, as “revoltas” de novembro de 2005 na França foram igualmente bastante analisadas. Privilegiando seus aspectos “urbanos”, “locais”, ou mesmo “étnicos”, a maior parte das interpretações propostas pelos pesquisadores teve por efeito, senão por objetivo, negar a este evento o seu verdadeiro caráter político. Elas não fazem mais do que reconduzir ao plano teórico o impasse prático ao qual conduziu uma “política urbana” que, há três décadas, segundo diferentes configurações, restringe-se a territorializar a questão social para eludi-la, à falta de poder resolvê-la. Essa questão reveste-se de formas espaciais novas com a transnacionalização do capital na era da acumulação flexível. Para neutralizar “no terreno” as desordens sociais engendradas por essa “nova ordem mundial”, as autoridades francesas esforçam-se em instaurar uma “nova ordem local”, em que a prevenção tende a tomara forma da repressão e a “política urbana” a confundir-se com uma polícia da cidade. Vale dizer que o “caso” francês não é mais que a exceção que, em um contexto sociológico, urbanístico e ideológico, vem confirmar a regra “global”. Palavras-chave: questão urbana; questão social; política das cidades. Abstract: Besides a big media coverage and a great dramatization, the “riots” of november 2005 in France also gave rise to a plenty of analysis. But, by prioritizing the “urban” and “local”, or even ethnic aspects of this event, most of the interpretations proposed by the searchers had the effect, if not the purpose, of denying its real political nature. Thus they do nothing else but to reinforce, on the theoretical level, the practical deadlock reached by a “City policy” which, since about thirty years and after constant changes, amounts to “territorialize” the social question in order to evade it, for want of solving it. With the transnationalization of capital in the flexible accumulation age, this question takes on new socio-spatial features. With the aim of neutralizing “in the field” the social disorders generated by this “new world order”, the French authorities endeavour to establish a “new local order” in which prevention tends to coincide with repression and the “City policy” with city policing. In other words, the French case is, within a sociological, town-planned and ideological context characteristic of France, no more than the exception which proves the “global” rule. Keywords: urban question; social question; city policy.


1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.


ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 46-48

This year's Annual Convention features some sweet new twists like ice cream and free wi-fi. But it also draws on a rich history as it returns to Chicago, the city where the association's seeds were planted way back in 1930. Read on through our special convention section for a full flavor of can't-miss events, helpful tips, and speakers who remind why you do what you do.


ASHA Leader ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Sweeney
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2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton

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