Scholarship on urban Latin America is prolific and multifaceted. The region not only is the
most urbanised in the world but also the most unequal. This distinctive feature makes it rich …

In urban studies,'presentism'–the prioritisation of present-day concerns at the expense of
historical and future considerations–has emerged as a critical bias that is rarely challenged …

This article contributes to debates on the decentering of urban research by critically
examining emergent forms of housing in the mining municipality of Canaã dos Carajás …

This article approaches the interconnections between Black placemaking and epistemic
decolonisation in contemporary Brazil. It discusses a region popularly known as Pequena …

Rio de Janeiro's long-marginalised, majority Afro-descendant old port area, home to the
remains of the Americas' largest slave disembarkation wharf and Brazil's first favela, has …

This thesis approaches two distinct but overlapping forms of anthropocentric universality:
one historically manifested in museums and their staging of scientific authority and the other …

This paper examines the relationship between sport mega-event construction and the
financialization of housing in Rio de Janeiro. It focuses on the area of Porto Maravilha …

Since its opening in December 2015, the Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) in Rio
de Janeiro's port zone has sought to present itself as a space for “inclusion”. The buzzword …

This article approaches the interconnections between Black place-making and epistemic
decolonisation in contemporary Brazil. It discusses a region popularly known as Pequena …