I am Home: The ‘New’ Place of Heritage

Post by Diana Maldonado & Marysol Uribe. [1] In the current times, facing the paradigm of the post-global world, the Continue reading →

Favelas: The “Real” Modernity in Latin America?

All countries that constitute Latin America are developing countries; approximately 124 million of Latin American urban inhabitants live in poverty. Continue reading →

Favelas, the New Beginning

“The city may be dead”, Lefebvre seems to say, but “long live the city!”… David Harvey, Rebel Cities (2012) [1] Continue reading →

Who’s Afraid of the Informal?: slum as an analytical category

Continuing the dialogical debate between FAVELissues writers about the conflation of informality and slums at the glocal scale. Following Lubiana’s post Continue reading →