Descrição
New Homes, New Lives? – Slum Upgrading, Consumptions Dreams and Debt in Brazil: This PhD thesis by Marie Kolling is a captivating ethnography of forced resettlement in the urban periphery of Salvador, Northeast Brazil, and the new lives the families tried to make for themselves in its aftermath in new state-built social housing. The resettlement was part of state-led slum upgrading interventions under the urban development project Better Days (Dias Melhores), a name that alludes to the optimism it evoked. As a woman expressed before she was resettled: a new house, a new life. The thesis portrays contemporary Brazil and its massive transformations since the beginning of the new millennium. Livro/catálogo (18cm x 25cm) usado, em excelente estado de conservação, ilustrado. Em Inglês.
