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Underground sociabilities

For over a decade, Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch has researched identity, culture, and resistance in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. Her work has lead to a "bottom-up" guide to social development, which has been presented and implemented all over the world.

Real favelas are communities of intense sociability, of intense social life.
Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch

 

Videos and podcasts

  • Gearty Grilling (interview):

  • : Learn about the collaboration process between researcher and designer

  • Social Development Conference - Brazil and UK:

  • Underground Sociabilities Seminar:

  • Underground Sociabilities Seminar:

Online resources

  • : As an output of Sandra's research, she has developed this tool-kit for social development practicioners. .

  • : This is a book about patterns of sociability and social development in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It examines how favela communities, despite harsh conditions of living, poverty and segregation, have been able to mobilise local resources to resist exclusion, fight off marginalisation and rewrite relations between the favelas and the city.

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  • : The Favelas at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ project blog started a dialogue between the UK and Brazil, providing a space for reflection, sharing of experiences and debate for academics, activists, policy-makers, students and practitioners.

News and updates

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  • Summer 2012 in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Connect: .