Development and the social sciences

International agencies in Brazilian favelas in the 1960s

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ID3065411
AuthorsRachel De Almeida Viana (0000-0002-2664-3544, Fiocruz, Brasil, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume30
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702023000100015en
OpenAlexW4382791993
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702023000100206
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

An analysis is presented of the work of three international entities in Brazilian favelas in the 1960s: Brasil-Estados Unidos Movimento, Desenvolvimento e Organização de Comunidade; Ação Comunitária do Brasil; and the United Nations. These entities conveyed the ideal of developmentalism through technical cooperation with countries deemed underdeveloped, drawing on the pure and applied social sciences through community development. Documents from the Anthony Leeds archive at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz were used to analyze these entities' actions in the favelas and their conceptions of development. Their official documents were compared, including newspapers and programs, as well as fieldnotes and letters by social scientists engaged in fieldwork in favelas in the period

Community development · Developmentalism · Economic growth · Fieldnotes · Library science · Media studies · Newspaper · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Anthropology · Engineering · History of Education Research in Brazil · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Sociology and Education in Brazil

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