Abstract
Abstract At the turn of the twenty-first century, the urban renewal project in Rio de Janeiro’s port region emphasized the macroscopic scale of road building and projects designed for the future. In parallel, the production of localities and cultural heritage have often sought to adapt to the impacts of urban transformation. Guided tours fostering the idea of ‘African heritage’ construct places of historical and contemporary significance, reinterpreting their wider connections with people and places and their disputed borders. In this context, ‘Little Africa’ involves the production of a ‘place’ designed locally by cultural associations that promote walking tours in an attempt to fix routes that either adapt to or subvert times and spaces.
Highlights
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the urban renewal project in Rio de Janeiro’s port region emphasized the macroscopic scale of road building and projects designed for the future
The idea of ‘Little Africa,’ today widely mentioned in the media and in diverse representations of Rio de Janeiro’s port zone in Brazil and internationally, does not correspond to the exact dimensions of the districts, but merges into fluid borders in which literary and even ‘utopian’ narratives (Guimarães 2014) are juxtaposed with the recent narratives on cultural heritage (Vassallo & Cicalo 2015), the political and moral recognition of differences and affirmation of rights (Guimarães 2014), the clashes between diverse agents involving religious dynamics (Carneiro & Pinheiro 2015), demands for political and cultural preservation (Vassallo & Cáceres 2019), and the initiatives of local residents and groups living in these districts (Fernandes 2014)
I wish to examine how this social production has acquired its own configuration in the current context when we focus on the voices produced by the circuits of guided tours aimed at Brazilian tourists and foreign visitors, and at the public of Rio de Janeiro, schools, and cultural and social interests seeking “to make the African heritage visible.”
Summary
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the urban renewal project in Rio de Janeiro’s port region emphasized the macroscopic scale of road building and projects designed for the future.
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