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3 results foundAuthor: Jovchelovitch, Sandra Title: Underground Sociabilities: Identity, Culture and Resistance in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas. Final Report Summary: Underground Sociabilities investigated pathways of exclusion and social development in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. It examined the lived world of favela communities and the work of two local organisations AfroReggae and CUFA, to systematise and disseminate effective experiences of social development. The project comprised three studies: an investigation of the lifeworld of favela communities, a systematic study of favela organisations AfroReggae and CUFA and an investigation of elite external observers in the wider city. Our approach was psychosocial, ethnographic and multimethod: questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with 204 favela residents analysis of documents pertaining to 130 projects of social development narrative interviews with 10 AfroReggae and CUFA leaders interviews with 16 external observers and partners, with special emphasis on the police Fieldwork was conducted between October 2009 and February 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. Four communities were studied: Cantagalo, City of God, Madureira and Vigário Geral. They were selected considering location in the city and link with AfroReggae and CUFA. Cantagalo and Vigário Geral fit the accepted definition of favelas, whereas City of God was built as a planned area for relocating favela-dwellers displaced from the city centre during the 1960s. Madureira is a formal neighbourhood surrounded by favelas. Theoretical inspiration was drawn from the concepts of sociability, social representations, imagination and psychosocial cartographies. Findings enabled the development of the concept of psychosocial scaffoldings. THE CONTEXT AND RESEARCH PROBLEM Rio is an unequal city; more than 20% of its population live in favelas. Residence in a favela impacts negatively on income, education, teenage pregnancy, literacy and mortality at young age. The rooting of drug trading in the favelas during the 1970s and 80s created parallel norms and regulations in favela communities and triggered a territorial war between drug trade factions and the police. Favela-dwellers were caught in-between. Violence, lack of services and socioeconomic deprivation in the favelas created social exclusion and separation between the favelas and the asphalted areas of Rio, known in the city as the division morro/asfalto (hill/asphalt). Favelas were pushed underground and became invisible, their diverse community life shut off by geographical, economic, symbolic, behavioural and cultural barriers. Since the 1990s new actors – young, mainly black, favela dwellers – entered the public sphere to organise responses to poverty, violence and segregation challenging the traditional model of the NGO and repositioning favela populations in the Brazilian public sphere. Details: London: London School of Economics and Political Science, Institute of Social Psychology, 2012. 158p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 26, 2013 at: http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/undergroundsociabilities/pdf/Underground_Sociabilities_Final_Report.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Brazil URL: http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/undergroundsociabilities/pdf/Underground_Sociabilities_Final_Report.pdf Shelf Number: 128141 Keywords: Cultural ActivitiesDrug Abuse and AddictionDrug Abuse and CrimeDrug TraffickingFavelas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)Socioeconomic Conditions and CrimeUrban Communities |
Author: Esthappan, Sino Title: Art Beyond Bars: A Case Study of the People's Paper Co-Op in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Summary: This report describes how the People's Paper Co-op redesigns reentry services to uniquely improve the well-being of formerly incarcerated individuals in Philadelphia through arts and cultural activities. Through interviews with returning women and men, People's Paper Co-op staff, and funders, this case study finds that inviting people exiting jails and prisons to participate in and lead reform, building community around their shared experience, and employing arts and culture as vehicles for reform all hold transformative potential to enhance the design and delivery of reentry services. Details: Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2018. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed march 25, 2019 at: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99036/philadelphia_peoples_paper_co-op_1.pdf Year: 2018 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99036/philadelphia_peoples_paper_co-op_1.pdf Shelf Number: 155154 Keywords: Arts Program Cultural ActivitiesEx-Offender Employment Prisoner Education and Training Prisoner Reentry |
Author: Great Britain. House of Commons. Culture, Media and Sport Committee Title: Changing Lives: the social impact of participation in culture and sport Summary: Cultural and sporting opportunities have intrinsic value, and can inspire personal success, but to view them only this narrowly would be to fail to understand their true value. Organisations working in these fields are doing so much more. Our inquiry showcases some of the evidence that we received, demonstrating the impact of culture and sport on positive outcomes in health, education, criminal justice and urban regeneration. But much of the excellent, life-changing work we heard about is on a precarious footing. The Government must recognise and harness social impact. Sports and culture must be better integrated within the work and policy objectives of the Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Ministry of Justice, to ensure that everyone can benefit from these opportunities. In the same way that sporting and cultural organisations see social impact as their core business, the Government should see sports and culture as a mainstream way of delivering their social policy goals. The footprint of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport means it is in an excellent position to co-ordinate Government thinking in this area, including maximising the opportunities from forthcoming major cultural and sporting occasions. Details: London: Author, 2019. 62p. Source: Internet Resource: Eleventh Report of Session 2017–19: Accessed May 17, 2019 at: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/734/734.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/734/734.pdf Shelf Number: 155893 Keywords: At-Risk Youth Cultural ActivitiesDelinquency Prevention Sports |