Desiree Poets
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 473469 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Desiree Poets |
| NOMBRES | Desiree |
| APELLIDO | Poets |
| FIRMA | POETS D |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7875-824X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Countering Persistent Alterity
This article explores Redes da Maré, a hybrid non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 2007 to support residents of Complexo da Maré, a neighbourhood of 16 favelas (informal settlements) in northeastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil housing 140,000 people. Amidst systemic discrimination and limited access to public services, citizens have continually contested that reality and Redes seeks to advocate for their human rights and to improve their…
Decolonization/Decoloniality, Entangled Ontologies
This article introduces a special issue of Community Change focused on Decolonization/Decoloniality and Entangled Ontologies. The guest editors provide a summary of each article and context for the pieces’ development from a PhD seminar at Virginia Tech in Fall 2022 titled “Decolonization/Decoloniality/Entangled Ontologies.”
The contributions of community-led newspapers to the resilience of Rio’s Maré and Rocinha favelas during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article explores how two community-led newspapers in Maré and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, promoted social resilience in their respective favelas during the first 6 months of COVID-19. We reviewed stories published in both newspapers and interviewed a sample of their journalists to investigate the newspapers' responses to the pandemic's effects, government policies (or lack thereof), and resident reactions to evolving virus-related ris…
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil
This article argues that settler colonialism structures Indigenous rights in Brazil and shows how Indigenous peoples have also engaged Indigenous rights to interrupt settler colonialism. To this end, it turns to the 20th century (re-)emergence of officially extinct Indigenous peoples in Brazil's Northeast Region and the central role of the toré ritual in this process. While the toré reversed the settler colonial logic of Indigenous elimination an…
Pacification as a key problem of politics in international political thought
This article is a response to Paul Kelly's discussion of Lenin and Mao in Conflict, War and Revolution: The problem of politics in international political thought (2022). Taking on a postcolonial perspective, it analytically expands how the book theorizes violence by understanding the violence of capitalist and colonial domination as a paradigm of war that structures pacified social relations and politics. The paper proposes that pacification, as…
Care-based community communication, capacity, and agency during the Covid-19 pandemic
Reflections on a Cross-Border Collaborative Research Effort During Covid-19
This article shares the reflections of members of a Virginia Tech-based collaborative research group and their experiences sharing information across borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus here on the methodology of our team-based or collaborative work, which has examined the roles of community-led newspapers and the arts in encouraging individual and collective agency in two of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, Maré and Rocinha. By collectively …
Introduction
Guest Editors: Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Philipp Horne, and DEsiree Poets
Settler colonialism and/in (urban) Brazil
How does elimination work in Brazil? After a brief history of miscegenation as assimilation/elimination, this article addresses this question through the experiences of one urban indigenous group (Aldeia Maracanã) and one urban Afro-descendant quilombo (Sacopã) in Rio de Janeiro. Based on fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2017, the article traces the continuities of settler colonialism in independent Brazil, including the multicultural turn of…
Curating against militarization
Since at least the 1980s, policy, research, and common-sense depictions have associated Rio de Janeiro's favelas with problems of gang violence, governance vacuum (state absence), and crisis. Within this discourse, favelas are constructed as spaces of exception, whose racialized residents are stripped of legal status and marked by a politics of death. Such imageries also constitute an archive of fear that has discursively-affectively upheld the c…
(Rhythms of) life in the uninhabitable
This is not a Favela
Under Brazil's 1988 Constitution, quilombo communities have the right to the titles of the lands they occupy. This paper assesses quilombo titles' transformative potential through the experiences of Rio de Janeiro's urban quilombo Sacopã, an ethnic Afro-descendant community once perceived as a favela. Unlike its neighbours, the community managed to resist the widespread favela removals of the 1970s. Based on an ethnographic approach during fieldw…
The securitization of citizenship in a 'Segregated City
The Pacification Police Units - UPPs - implemented in Rio de Janeiro since 2008 have as one of their stated goals the promotion of the integration between the pacified favelas and the 'formal' city, aiming to overcome the view of Rio as a 'divided city'. Intending to problematize the reasoning behind this stated goal in order to question the UPPs' very foundations, this article examines the political and sociospatial background in which they were…
The securitization of citizenship in a 'Segregated City
The Pacification Police Units - UPPs - implemented in Rio de Janeiro since 2008 have as one of their stated goals the promotion of the integration between the pacified favelas and the 'formal' city, aiming to overcome the view of Rio as a 'divided city'. Intending to problematize the reasoning behind this stated goal in order to question the UPPs' very foundations, this article examines the political and sociospatial background in which they were…
Curating against militarization
Since at least the 1980s, policy, research, and common-sense depictions have associated Rio de Janeiro's favelas with problems of gang violence, governance vacuum (state absence), and crisis. Within this discourse, favelas are constructed as spaces of exception, whose racialized residents are stripped of legal status and marked by a politics of death. Such imageries also constitute an archive of fear that has discursively-affectively upheld the c…
This is not a Favela
Under Brazil's 1988 Constitution, quilombo communities have the right to the titles of the lands they occupy. This paper assesses quilombo titles' transformative potential through the experiences of Rio de Janeiro's urban quilombo Sacopã, an ethnic Afro-descendant community once perceived as a favela. Unlike its neighbours, the community managed to resist the widespread favela removals of the 1970s. Based on an ethnographic approach during fieldw…
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil
This article argues that settler colonialism structures Indigenous rights in Brazil and shows how Indigenous peoples have also engaged Indigenous rights to interrupt settler colonialism. To this end, it turns to the 20th century (re-)emergence of officially extinct Indigenous peoples in Brazil's Northeast Region and the central role of the toré ritual in this process. While the toré reversed the settler colonial logic of Indigenous elimination an…
The contributions of community-led newspapers to the resilience of Rio’s Maré and Rocinha favelas during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article explores how two community-led newspapers in Maré and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, promoted social resilience in their respective favelas during the first 6 months of COVID-19. We reviewed stories published in both newspapers and interviewed a sample of their journalists to investigate the newspapers' responses to the pandemic's effects, government policies (or lack thereof), and resident reactions to evolving virus-related ris…
Introduction
Guest Editors: Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Philipp Horne, and DEsiree Poets
The securitization of citizenship in a 'Segregated City
The Pacification Police Units - UPPs - implemented in Rio de Janeiro since 2008 have as one of their stated goals the promotion of the integration between the pacified favelas and the 'formal' city, aiming to overcome the view of Rio as a 'divided city'. Intending to problematize the reasoning behind this stated goal in order to question the UPPs' very foundations, this article examines the political and sociospatial background in which they were…
This is not a Favela
Under Brazil's 1988 Constitution, quilombo communities have the right to the titles of the lands they occupy. This paper assesses quilombo titles' transformative potential through the experiences of Rio de Janeiro's urban quilombo Sacopã, an ethnic Afro-descendant community once perceived as a favela. Unlike its neighbours, the community managed to resist the widespread favela removals of the 1970s. Based on an ethnographic approach during fieldw…
(Rhythms of) life in the uninhabitable
Curating against militarization
Since at least the 1980s, policy, research, and common-sense depictions have associated Rio de Janeiro's favelas with problems of gang violence, governance vacuum (state absence), and crisis. Within this discourse, favelas are constructed as spaces of exception, whose racialized residents are stripped of legal status and marked by a politics of death. Such imageries also constitute an archive of fear that has discursively-affectively upheld the c…
Settler colonialism and/in (urban) Brazil
How does elimination work in Brazil? After a brief history of miscegenation as assimilation/elimination, this article addresses this question through the experiences of one urban indigenous group (Aldeia Maracanã) and one urban Afro-descendant quilombo (Sacopã) in Rio de Janeiro. Based on fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2017, the article traces the continuities of settler colonialism in independent Brazil, including the multicultural turn of…
Reflections on a Cross-Border Collaborative Research Effort During Covid-19
This article shares the reflections of members of a Virginia Tech-based collaborative research group and their experiences sharing information across borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus here on the methodology of our team-based or collaborative work, which has examined the roles of community-led newspapers and the arts in encouraging individual and collective agency in two of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, Maré and Rocinha. By collectively …
Introduction
Guest Editors: Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Philipp Horne, and DEsiree Poets
Pacification as a key problem of politics in international political thought
This article is a response to Paul Kelly's discussion of Lenin and Mao in Conflict, War and Revolution: The problem of politics in international political thought (2022). Taking on a postcolonial perspective, it analytically expands how the book theorizes violence by understanding the violence of capitalist and colonial domination as a paradigm of war that structures pacified social relations and politics. The paper proposes that pacification, as…
Care-based community communication, capacity, and agency during the Covid-19 pandemic
Decolonization/Decoloniality, Entangled Ontologies
This article introduces a special issue of Community Change focused on Decolonization/Decoloniality and Entangled Ontologies. The guest editors provide a summary of each article and context for the pieces’ development from a PhD seminar at Virginia Tech in Fall 2022 titled “Decolonization/Decoloniality/Entangled Ontologies.”
The contributions of community-led newspapers to the resilience of Rio’s Maré and Rocinha favelas during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article explores how two community-led newspapers in Maré and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, promoted social resilience in their respective favelas during the first 6 months of COVID-19. We reviewed stories published in both newspapers and interviewed a sample of their journalists to investigate the newspapers' responses to the pandemic's effects, government policies (or lack thereof), and resident reactions to evolving virus-related ris…
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil
This article argues that settler colonialism structures Indigenous rights in Brazil and shows how Indigenous peoples have also engaged Indigenous rights to interrupt settler colonialism. To this end, it turns to the 20th century (re-)emergence of officially extinct Indigenous peoples in Brazil's Northeast Region and the central role of the toré ritual in this process. While the toré reversed the settler colonial logic of Indigenous elimination an…
Countering Persistent Alterity
This article explores Redes da Maré, a hybrid non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 2007 to support residents of Complexo da Maré, a neighbourhood of 16 favelas (informal settlements) in northeastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil housing 140,000 people. Amidst systemic discrimination and limited access to public services, citizens have continually contested that reality and Redes seeks to advocate for their human rights and to improve their…
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Colonialism (4 obras) · Indigenous (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras)