Rio de Janeiro and the divided state Analysing the political discourse on favelas

This article analyses the discourse on favelas produced by Brazilian society and consumed in the political field of local administration. The ideological conception of favelas (slums) determines the creation of public policies that reinforce the prejudicial notion of favelas. This work employs criti...

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Published inDiscourse & society Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 74 - 94
Main Author Lacerda, Daniel S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England Sage Publications, Ltd 01.01.2015
SAGE Publications
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Administration
Analysis
Brazil
Critical Theory
Discourse
Discourse Analysis
Government
Low Income Groups
Management
Media
Politics
Poverty
Praxis
Public Policy
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Slums
Society
Work
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
critical discourse analysis
favelas
slums
dialectical relational approach
Brazil
discourse historical approach
Rio de Janeiro
political discourse
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Summary:This article analyses the discourse on favelas produced by Brazilian society and consumed in the political field of local administration. The ideological conception of favelas (slums) determines the creation of public policies that reinforce the prejudicial notion of favelas. This work employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse several texts extracted from mass-media stories and press releases of the Rio government. It shows that the state of praxis reproduces the understanding of slums as a phenomenon detached from the rest of society. This alienated vision impacts on different utterances blaming the poor (analysis 1); perpetuating poverty (analysis 2); and reinforcing exclusion (analysis 3).
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ISSN:0957-9265
1460-3624
DOI:10.1177/0957926514541346