Jeff Garmany
Biographic Data
| ID | 137693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Garmany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Garmany |
| SIGNATURE | GARMANY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5892-233X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Rent Gaps, Gentrification and the ‘Two Circuits’ of Latin American Urban Economies
Recent research in Latin America, and our own analysis of Brazilian cities, indicate that aspects of rent gap theory – in particular, the assumption that strong links exist between rent gaps and gentrification – do not fully account for observed empirical conditions. Drawing on Milton Santos' theory of “two circuits” of urban economies in the global South, we seek to develop an expanded framework better suited to explaining the Latin American con…
The Right to Occupy: Moral Economies of Occupation and Social Housing in Urban Brazil
Current research on Brazilian vacant buildings where squatters live tends to paint a familiar picture: the occupants are united in struggle, resolute in their understanding that squatting is within their constitutional, legal, and natural rights. However, drawing on new data from Rio de Janeiro, we argue that researchers have an incomplete understanding of this process. Our findings reveal considerable ideological variation among occupants regard…
Urban orientalism and the informal city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In this article, we scrutinize the concept of 'urban informality' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By unpacking key moments in Rio's history when conceptualizations of informal housing (i.e., favelas) changed, we explain why favelas have been understood in different ways over the last century. Our argument is that the concept of informality, while signaling an important shift in how favelas were understood, also perpetuated orientalist epistemologies i…
Valladares, Licia do Prado. The Invention of the Favela. Trans. Anderson Robert N.. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP. 2019. 279 pp
An open secret’: Public housing and downward raiding in Rio de Janeiro
This article examines a case of urban displacement currently underway in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In some respects, this case represents a classic example of what researchers call ‘downward raiding’: a type of urban displacement whereby low-income housing is exploited by higher-income groups. Yet, in other respects, it also raises important questions about the ways urban displacement happens in public housing, as well as how downward raidi…
Hygienisation, Gentrification, and Urban Displacement in Brazil
This article engages recent debates over gentrification and urban displacement in the global South. While researchers increasingly suggest that gentrification is becoming widespread in “Southern” cities, others argue that such analyses overlook important differences in empirical context and privilege EuroAmerican theoretical frameworks. To respond to this debate, in this article, we outline the concept of higienização (hygienisation), arguing tha…
Crime, insecurity and corruption: Considering the growth of urban private security
We call into question the growing presence of private security companies (PSCs) in cities throughout the world. Though PSCs have grown enormously in recent decades, there exist few academic analyses to consider their broad-reaching effects. Researchers still have much to understand about the relationships between PSCs and changing patterns of urban development, governance and public security. PSCs are prevalent in both the Global North and South,…
The ecology of citizenship: Understanding vulnerability in urban Brazil
This article calls into question the relationship between citizenship, space and ecological stability. Drawing on case study research from urban Brazil, we argue that while space may be crucial to Western perspectives of citizenship – particularly in urban areas – the ecological coproduction of these very same spaces is regularly overlooked. By not accounting for these processes, citizenship’s promises continually fall short: though greater acces…
Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance
This article examines how poor people negotiate obligations placed on them by social welfare initiatives. More specifically, it considers conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs), and the ways beneficiaries harness program conditionalities to make demands on authorities, in some cases even enacting subtle forms of resistance to state governance. Drawing from Michel de Certeau, it argues that while CCT conditionalities function as strategies of s…
Neoliberalism, governance, and the geographies of conditional cash transfers
Post-Third-World City' or Neoliberal 'City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era
This article considers processes of urban development within the context of mega-event preparations in Rio de Janeiro. We begin with a brief overview of these development processes, highlighting their connections to political and economic change in recent years. Proponents of these mega-event-led initiatives argue that Rio is undergoing a period of inclusive growth and integration: a perspective we call here a 'post-Third-World city' narrative of…
Space for the State? Police, Violence, and Urban Poverty in Brazil
This article explores the relationships between policing and space, querying perceived divisions between the state and society through an investigation of police work. By examining the tenuous position that police officers occupy (e.g., of state actor one moment and nonstate actor the next), it unpacks the state–society contradictions embodied by police. More directly, this article argues that state–society imaginaries are fraught with a host of …
Slums, space and spirituality: Religious diversity in contemporary B razil
Since the late 1980s, a growing body of academic literature has focused upon the ‘evangelicalisation’ of L atin A merica and other, less affluent world regions (e.g. A frica and S outheast A sia). Valuable for exploring a host of interconnected social, political, economic and cultural practices, this research has consistently pondered the implications of changing religious affiliations and what the effects of these changes might hold for society …
Spaces of displacement and the potentialities of (post)citizenship
Drugs, Violence, Fear, and Death: The Necro- and Narco-Geographies of Contemporary Urban Space
This study considers the ways that narcotics, violence, and death affect contemporary urban space. Though geographers have long investigated patterns of drug use and death in cities, few have analyzed how drugs and homicide-with the capabilities to alter both bodies and space-produce change and profoundly influence urban sociospatial contexts. By unpacking multiple narratives of daily violence and drug use from the favela community of Pirambu in …
Situating Fortaleza: Urban space and uneven development in northeastern Brazil
Brazil’s Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Religion and governmentality: Understanding governance in urban Brazil
The embodied state: Governmentality in a Brazilian favela
Given that the influence of the state apparatus tends to vary across space, it has been frequently presumed that the state develops a stronger presence in wealthier neighborhoods (where levels of capital accumulation are higher) than it does in poorer ones. In Brazilian favelas (urban slums), as a prominent example, ethnographic accounts have previously suggested that the presence of the 'official' state is limited and on the decline. Based on th…
The Spaces of Social Movements: O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra from a Socio-spatial Perspective
This paper considers the social movement O Movimento dos Trabalharores Rurais Sem Terra (The Movement of Landless Rural Workers, often referred to as the MST). Based on empirical data collected in Ceará, Brazil during 2005, it explores the social and spatial practices that shape MST communities. Using Henri Lefebvre's theory of spatial production, a framework is developed for conceptualising Brazilian agrarian reform within the context of spatial…
Considering Space, Politics, and Social Movements: An Interview with João Pedro Stedile, a Leader within Brazil's O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (the MST)
(Intervention)
Technology and Employment in Developing Countries
This article discusses some of the issues involved in the choice of technology in developing countries, especially those in Africa, and the relationship of this to employment and output. The problem is to find an optimum combination of productive resources that comes nearest to satisfying two objectives: the full and economically efficient utilisation of such resources, and the creation of as much surplus as possible over current consumption, the…
Enterprise, Management and Organisation in Africa: A Plea for Research
This short article has two themes: it is prompted first by a feeling that many African countries, in their natural impatience for maximum economic development in the shortest possible time, are in some danger of getting their strategy and priorities not quite right in regard to the rural-urban, agricultural-industrial balance. More specifically, a plea is made for greater attention being given to traditional food farming (for subsistence or cash)…
The embodied state: Governmentality in a Brazilian favela
Given that the influence of the state apparatus tends to vary across space, it has been frequently presumed that the state develops a stronger presence in wealthier neighborhoods (where levels of capital accumulation are higher) than it does in poorer ones. In Brazilian favelas (urban slums), as a prominent example, ethnographic accounts have previously suggested that the presence of the 'official' state is limited and on the decline. Based on th…
Hygienisation, Gentrification, and Urban Displacement in Brazil
This article engages recent debates over gentrification and urban displacement in the global South. While researchers increasingly suggest that gentrification is becoming widespread in “Southern” cities, others argue that such analyses overlook important differences in empirical context and privilege EuroAmerican theoretical frameworks. To respond to this debate, in this article, we outline the concept of higienização (hygienisation), arguing tha…
Religion and governmentality: Understanding governance in urban Brazil
Drugs, Violence, Fear, and Death: The Necro- and Narco-Geographies of Contemporary Urban Space
This study considers the ways that narcotics, violence, and death affect contemporary urban space. Though geographers have long investigated patterns of drug use and death in cities, few have analyzed how drugs and homicide-with the capabilities to alter both bodies and space-produce change and profoundly influence urban sociospatial contexts. By unpacking multiple narratives of daily violence and drug use from the favela community of Pirambu in …
Space for the State? Police, Violence, and Urban Poverty in Brazil
This article explores the relationships between policing and space, querying perceived divisions between the state and society through an investigation of police work. By examining the tenuous position that police officers occupy (e.g., of state actor one moment and nonstate actor the next), it unpacks the state–society contradictions embodied by police. More directly, this article argues that state–society imaginaries are fraught with a host of …
Post-Third-World City' or Neoliberal 'City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era
This article considers processes of urban development within the context of mega-event preparations in Rio de Janeiro. We begin with a brief overview of these development processes, highlighting their connections to political and economic change in recent years. Proponents of these mega-event-led initiatives argue that Rio is undergoing a period of inclusive growth and integration: a perspective we call here a 'post-Third-World city' narrative of…
Situating Fortaleza: Urban space and uneven development in northeastern Brazil
The ecology of citizenship: Understanding vulnerability in urban Brazil
This article calls into question the relationship between citizenship, space and ecological stability. Drawing on case study research from urban Brazil, we argue that while space may be crucial to Western perspectives of citizenship – particularly in urban areas – the ecological coproduction of these very same spaces is regularly overlooked. By not accounting for these processes, citizenship’s promises continually fall short: though greater acces…
Neoliberalism, governance, and the geographies of conditional cash transfers
Crime, insecurity and corruption: Considering the growth of urban private security
We call into question the growing presence of private security companies (PSCs) in cities throughout the world. Though PSCs have grown enormously in recent decades, there exist few academic analyses to consider their broad-reaching effects. Researchers still have much to understand about the relationships between PSCs and changing patterns of urban development, governance and public security. PSCs are prevalent in both the Global North and South,…
The Spaces of Social Movements: O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra from a Socio-spatial Perspective
This paper considers the social movement O Movimento dos Trabalharores Rurais Sem Terra (The Movement of Landless Rural Workers, often referred to as the MST). Based on empirical data collected in Ceará, Brazil during 2005, it explores the social and spatial practices that shape MST communities. Using Henri Lefebvre's theory of spatial production, a framework is developed for conceptualising Brazilian agrarian reform within the context of spatial…
Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance
This article examines how poor people negotiate obligations placed on them by social welfare initiatives. More specifically, it considers conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs), and the ways beneficiaries harness program conditionalities to make demands on authorities, in some cases even enacting subtle forms of resistance to state governance. Drawing from Michel de Certeau, it argues that while CCT conditionalities function as strategies of s…
Brazil’s Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Considering Space, Politics, and Social Movements: An Interview with João Pedro Stedile, a Leader within Brazil's O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (the MST)
(Intervention)
Rent Gaps, Gentrification and the ‘Two Circuits’ of Latin American Urban Economies
Recent research in Latin America, and our own analysis of Brazilian cities, indicate that aspects of rent gap theory – in particular, the assumption that strong links exist between rent gaps and gentrification – do not fully account for observed empirical conditions. Drawing on Milton Santos' theory of “two circuits” of urban economies in the global South, we seek to develop an expanded framework better suited to explaining the Latin American con…
Spaces of displacement and the potentialities of (post)citizenship
An open secret’: Public housing and downward raiding in Rio de Janeiro
This article examines a case of urban displacement currently underway in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In some respects, this case represents a classic example of what researchers call ‘downward raiding’: a type of urban displacement whereby low-income housing is exploited by higher-income groups. Yet, in other respects, it also raises important questions about the ways urban displacement happens in public housing, as well as how downward raidi…
Enterprise, Management and Organisation in Africa: A Plea for Research
This short article has two themes: it is prompted first by a feeling that many African countries, in their natural impatience for maximum economic development in the shortest possible time, are in some danger of getting their strategy and priorities not quite right in regard to the rural-urban, agricultural-industrial balance. More specifically, a plea is made for greater attention being given to traditional food farming (for subsistence or cash)…
Enterprise, Management and Organisation in Africa: A Plea for Research
This short article has two themes: it is prompted first by a feeling that many African countries, in their natural impatience for maximum economic development in the shortest possible time, are in some danger of getting their strategy and priorities not quite right in regard to the rural-urban, agricultural-industrial balance. More specifically, a plea is made for greater attention being given to traditional food farming (for subsistence or cash)…
Technology and Employment in Developing Countries
This article discusses some of the issues involved in the choice of technology in developing countries, especially those in Africa, and the relationship of this to employment and output. The problem is to find an optimum combination of productive resources that comes nearest to satisfying two objectives: the full and economically efficient utilisation of such resources, and the creation of as much surplus as possible over current consumption, the…
The Spaces of Social Movements: O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra from a Socio-spatial Perspective
This paper considers the social movement O Movimento dos Trabalharores Rurais Sem Terra (The Movement of Landless Rural Workers, often referred to as the MST). Based on empirical data collected in Ceará, Brazil during 2005, it explores the social and spatial practices that shape MST communities. Using Henri Lefebvre's theory of spatial production, a framework is developed for conceptualising Brazilian agrarian reform within the context of spatial…
Considering Space, Politics, and Social Movements: An Interview with João Pedro Stedile, a Leader within Brazil's O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (the MST)
(Intervention)
The embodied state: Governmentality in a Brazilian favela
Given that the influence of the state apparatus tends to vary across space, it has been frequently presumed that the state develops a stronger presence in wealthier neighborhoods (where levels of capital accumulation are higher) than it does in poorer ones. In Brazilian favelas (urban slums), as a prominent example, ethnographic accounts have previously suggested that the presence of the 'official' state is limited and on the decline. Based on th…
Brazil’s Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Religion and governmentality: Understanding governance in urban Brazil
Drugs, Violence, Fear, and Death: The Necro- and Narco-Geographies of Contemporary Urban Space
This study considers the ways that narcotics, violence, and death affect contemporary urban space. Though geographers have long investigated patterns of drug use and death in cities, few have analyzed how drugs and homicide-with the capabilities to alter both bodies and space-produce change and profoundly influence urban sociospatial contexts. By unpacking multiple narratives of daily violence and drug use from the favela community of Pirambu in …
Situating Fortaleza: Urban space and uneven development in northeastern Brazil
Spaces of displacement and the potentialities of (post)citizenship
Slums, space and spirituality: Religious diversity in contemporary B razil
Since the late 1980s, a growing body of academic literature has focused upon the ‘evangelicalisation’ of L atin A merica and other, less affluent world regions (e.g. A frica and S outheast A sia). Valuable for exploring a host of interconnected social, political, economic and cultural practices, this research has consistently pondered the implications of changing religious affiliations and what the effects of these changes might hold for society …
Space for the State? Police, Violence, and Urban Poverty in Brazil
This article explores the relationships between policing and space, querying perceived divisions between the state and society through an investigation of police work. By examining the tenuous position that police officers occupy (e.g., of state actor one moment and nonstate actor the next), it unpacks the state–society contradictions embodied by police. More directly, this article argues that state–society imaginaries are fraught with a host of …
Neoliberalism, governance, and the geographies of conditional cash transfers
Post-Third-World City' or Neoliberal 'City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era
This article considers processes of urban development within the context of mega-event preparations in Rio de Janeiro. We begin with a brief overview of these development processes, highlighting their connections to political and economic change in recent years. Proponents of these mega-event-led initiatives argue that Rio is undergoing a period of inclusive growth and integration: a perspective we call here a 'post-Third-World city' narrative of…
The ecology of citizenship: Understanding vulnerability in urban Brazil
This article calls into question the relationship between citizenship, space and ecological stability. Drawing on case study research from urban Brazil, we argue that while space may be crucial to Western perspectives of citizenship – particularly in urban areas – the ecological coproduction of these very same spaces is regularly overlooked. By not accounting for these processes, citizenship’s promises continually fall short: though greater acces…
Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance
This article examines how poor people negotiate obligations placed on them by social welfare initiatives. More specifically, it considers conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs), and the ways beneficiaries harness program conditionalities to make demands on authorities, in some cases even enacting subtle forms of resistance to state governance. Drawing from Michel de Certeau, it argues that while CCT conditionalities function as strategies of s…
Crime, insecurity and corruption: Considering the growth of urban private security
We call into question the growing presence of private security companies (PSCs) in cities throughout the world. Though PSCs have grown enormously in recent decades, there exist few academic analyses to consider their broad-reaching effects. Researchers still have much to understand about the relationships between PSCs and changing patterns of urban development, governance and public security. PSCs are prevalent in both the Global North and South,…
Hygienisation, Gentrification, and Urban Displacement in Brazil
This article engages recent debates over gentrification and urban displacement in the global South. While researchers increasingly suggest that gentrification is becoming widespread in “Southern” cities, others argue that such analyses overlook important differences in empirical context and privilege EuroAmerican theoretical frameworks. To respond to this debate, in this article, we outline the concept of higienização (hygienisation), arguing tha…
Valladares, Licia do Prado. The Invention of the Favela. Trans. Anderson Robert N.. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP. 2019. 279 pp
An open secret’: Public housing and downward raiding in Rio de Janeiro
This article examines a case of urban displacement currently underway in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In some respects, this case represents a classic example of what researchers call ‘downward raiding’: a type of urban displacement whereby low-income housing is exploited by higher-income groups. Yet, in other respects, it also raises important questions about the ways urban displacement happens in public housing, as well as how downward raidi…
Urban orientalism and the informal city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In this article, we scrutinize the concept of 'urban informality' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By unpacking key moments in Rio's history when conceptualizations of informal housing (i.e., favelas) changed, we explain why favelas have been understood in different ways over the last century. Our argument is that the concept of informality, while signaling an important shift in how favelas were understood, also perpetuated orientalist epistemologies i…
Rent Gaps, Gentrification and the ‘Two Circuits’ of Latin American Urban Economies
Recent research in Latin America, and our own analysis of Brazilian cities, indicate that aspects of rent gap theory – in particular, the assumption that strong links exist between rent gaps and gentrification – do not fully account for observed empirical conditions. Drawing on Milton Santos' theory of “two circuits” of urban economies in the global South, we seek to develop an expanded framework better suited to explaining the Latin American con…
The Right to Occupy: Moral Economies of Occupation and Social Housing in Urban Brazil
Current research on Brazilian vacant buildings where squatters live tends to paint a familiar picture: the occupants are united in struggle, resolute in their understanding that squatting is within their constitutional, legal, and natural rights. However, drawing on new data from Rio de Janeiro, we argue that researchers have an incomplete understanding of this process. Our findings reveal considerable ideological variation among occupants regard…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works)