The “intervention logic” and the issue of circulation: the removal of slums in order to manage the urban space in Rio de Janeiro of the Olympic Games

Abstract

The removal of slums in Rio de Janeiro returned to the state agenda. Since 2009, approximately 21,000 families were removed from their original places of residence. In this article I present, from the ethnographic description, two interconnected dimensions that structure this process: the “intervention logic” and the issue of circulation. Such analytic enterprise will rely on the experience of residents of a slum in the West Zone of the city removed between the years 2010 and 2011 due to the construction of a road secreted into buses, work this included in the list of those that would prepare the city for the Olympic Games 2016.

Slums; Removal; Intervention; Circulation; Olympic Games