The West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Frontier of Urban Studies?

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Marcella
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Cortado, Thomas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/29498
• topic: West Zone, urban frontier, temporalities, spacialities, urban sociability; Zona Oeste, fronteira urbana, temporalidades, espacialidades, sociabilidade urbana

This paper intends to build a methodological approach for socio-anthropological studies about the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The paper departs from two native categories framing the urban sociability in the West Zone: tranquility and progress. Exploring their multiple social meanings, the authors trace the differences and convergences with other temporalities and spacialities found in Rio de Janeiro. In this sense, the paper revisits the scholarship dedicated to understanding urban dynamics in the West Zone and organize them in two main research fields: one over politics and violence; and the other over the production of the city. Finally, we propose a research question: the analysis of the West Zone as an urban frontier.