FIFA/IOC‐Sanctioned Development and the Imminence of Erotic Space |
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Authors: | AMANDA DE LISIO,JO O GABRIEL R. SODR |
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Affiliation: | AMANDA DE LISIO,JOÃO GABRIEL R. SODRÉ |
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Abstract: | Based on ethnographic research conducted since April 2014, this paper will examine the intersection between mega‐event security apparatuses, event‐led urbanism, and local geographies of desire. We argue that urban sanitisation strategies (particularly those derived from a constellation of foreign interests) threaten local geographies of desire but remain dependent upon erotic space and subjectivities in (trans)national exchange and everyday economic salvation. The erasure of sexual diversity is a case with which to examine the impact of FIFA/IOC‐sanctioned urban renewal, and the manner in which local bodies (particularly those deemed sexually ‘deviant’) are repeatedly forced to circumvent these globally determined processes of development. |
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Keywords: | FIFA World Cup Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro sexual landscape event urbanism informal economies |
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