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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 30, 2007
Community Development Journal 2007 42(4):524-527; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm042
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Culture is Our Weapon: AfroReggae in the Favelas of Rio

Liam Kane

email: L.Kane@educ.gla.ac.uk

Patrick Neate and Damian Platt , Latin American Bureau, London, 2006, 176 pp., ISBN 1 899365 69 9, £8.99

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This is a concise, accessible and engaging book, which introduces a range of issues related to development and community development in Brazil. Playing an intermediary role, Neate and Platt do a fine job of enabling residents in Rio's favelas to explain the nitty-gritty of their lives to outsiders and provide the interesting detail normally lacking in more academic pieces. Through residents' stories we learn, for example, how each favela is a world unto itself, how the drugs trade is organized, how it impacts on people's lives and how the police are perceived by all concerned. Most of all we sense the overwhelming presence of the culture of violence, illustrated by the barely credible fact that...

... between 1948 and 1999, an estimated 13,000 people were . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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