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Removal, resistance and the right to the Olympic city: The case of Vila Autodromo in Rio de Janeiro

Ivester, Sukari·2017·Journal of Urban Affairs
DOI 10.1080/07352166.2017.1355665
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On the same October day in 2009 that the International Olympic Committee announced the 2016 Summer Olympics would be held in Rio de Janeiro, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro announced that Vila Autódromo—a fairly small favela in the west part of the city, crowded between a lagoon, an automobile racetrack, and a busy highway, and ultimately the Olympic Park—would be removed as part of the infrastructure plan designed to prepare the city for the Games. This article examines the case of Vila Autódromo, and the resistance of favela residents to being forcibly removed from their community, to provide insight into the sources of opposition and resistance to urban development. The practice of forced evictions in the name of urban development will be explored as a manifest form of marginalization in the context of Olympic development. Rather than concealing urban problems, urban spectacles such as the Olympics serve to highlight social inequalities and display highly contradictory urban representations that can spawn agendas of resistance that serve to complicate elite redevelopment agendas and divide progrowth coalitions.

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Authors
Ivester, S.
Affiliations
California State University, East Bay (US)
Corresponding author
Ivester, Sukari
ORCID
Ivester, Sukari
Venue
Journal of Urban Affairs
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2017-08-22
Volume
39
Issue
7
Pages
970-985
ISSN
  • 0735-2166 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9906
DOI
10.1080/07352166.2017.1355665
OpenAlex
W2749826368
Cited by
22
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1
FWCI
5.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of Urban Affairs (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Latin American Urban Studies
Keywords
Vila Autódromo, 2016 Rio Olympics, Olympic city, favela removal, forced eviction, urban resistance, urban regeneration, Olympic infrastructure, marginalization, social inequality, urban representation, Rio de Janeiro

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