Rio de Conflitos
CURADORIA
Heloisa Murgel Starling
The carioca is not peaceful. The fallacy of this myth reveals itself as we navigate the 75 "memories" that narrate violent events, from the indigenous wars to the 2013 protests. Civil conflicts, coups, marches, revolts, and riots parade before our eyes, constructing another narrative about the city and its people.
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Nova democracia, novos conflitos
In the 1980s, there were not few times when an event of national relevance became the trigger for broad social sectors to take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Occupying the streets and squares was an effective action, used as a form of access to debate when all other devices of dialogue were closed. Marches, pickets, and street protests are strategies of occupation of the public world employed by the new political actors who inaugurated the New Republic in Brazil.