http://hdl.handle.net/11422/80 2026-07-30T12:20:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29822 Title: Vila Operária, Duque de Caxias : a mulher como sujeito político na produção do espaço favelado Author(s)/Inventor(s): Medeiros, Ana Carolina Pacheco Olimpio Advisor: Simões, Soraya Silveira Abstract: The research entitled "Vila Operária, Duque de Caxias: women as political subjects in the production of favela spaces" aims to explore the narrative of the Vila Operária favela, located in Duque de Caxias - RJ, from a female perspective, with the intention of recovering the daily oral history passed down over time among women in a way that problematizes the silencing of these plots by society. Women have been and continue to be agents of transformation in the social and political struggles that have molded favelas over time. By telling their stories from this perspective, we gain a richer and more intersectional understanding of the historical events that shaped urban spaces, particularly peripheral spaces. The fundamental role of black women in the construction of favelas stands out, due their active participation in daily urban life and the contribution to the configuration of favela spaces. Recognizing and strengthening the role of these women is essential to approach the history of favelas from a nonhegemonic, elitist and patriarchal perspective. The performance of women in the production of urban favela space is presented in this work as a collective cultural heritage for the locality, fulfilling a crucial role in the formation of identity and the dynamics of appropriation of these localities over time. The methodology aims to describe and analyze the historical-cultural process of consolidation of the Vila Operária favela, reviewing bibliographies on the region and on the themes of gender, race and class linked to urban planning, using documentary references from the City Hall of Duque de Caxias, during the period from 1950 to 1960. The research also seeks to understand the social practices that shaped the local urbanization, through open qualitative interviews with residents and an insurgent mapping focusing on the collective female experience. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29819 Title: Os fundos de investimento imobiliário residenciais : transformações no segmento e formas de atuação no contexto da financeirização do cotidiano (2017-2023) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Valfré, Lorenzo Gonçalves Advisor: Siqueira, Hipólita Abstract: Since the half of the 2010s, we have noticed an unprecedented connection between the financial markets and increasingly larger segments of the general population, shaping part of a broad process of the financialization of daily life in Brazil. In this context, due to their characteristics, particularities, and promotion, real estate investment trusts (called Fundos de Investimento Imobiliário – FIIs) have grown in popularity, expanding their economic power and adding complexity to their operational strategies, aiming to attract resources from new investors and broaden their real estate-financial accumulation fronts. During the same period, FIIs have increasingly become part of the strategic portfolio of real estate developers, leading to significant transformations in the capitalist production of housing. This study aims to understand how this process of financialization of daily life has influenced specifically the residential segment of FIIs in terms of their modes of operation, organization, and relationships with real estate agents. Using data primarily provided by the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) about the real estate fund industry from 2017 to 2023, we identified a strong proportional growth of the residential segment of FIIs and transformations in their operational and organizational structures, particularly aimed at attracting small investors' capital.On one hand, there is an intensification of these funds as real estate developers due to their increasing economic power. On the other hand, we observe the use of FIIs as part of new strategies by established real estate developers to execute their accumulation processes, particularly within the residential rental segment. The financial relevance and the rapid growth of this segment in recent years, as well as the way it has unfolded, lead us to conclude that such expansion was only possible due to this specific dimension of financialization – namely, the financialization of daily life. This underscores the continuous need to understand the relationship between this dimension and its implications for the real estate sector. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese 2025-05-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29606 Title: Feias cidades: uma reflexão sobre as cidades a partir da feiura Author(s)/Inventor(s): Nienov, Fabio Advisor: Correa, Filipe Souza Abstract: This thesis investigates urban ugliness as a central aesthetic category for understanding the production and experience of the contemporary urban environment. The research stems from a sense of unease regarding the Brazilian built environment: hostile, unpleasant cities devoid of vegetation, whose ugliness is often normalized or silenced. It seeks to understand why modernity has resulted in spaces marked by a functionalist and unpleasant logic, and by the erasure of nature and collective memories. Methodologically, the research adopts the format of the academic essay and the concept of the “enigma-city,” inspired by Walter Benjamin, which proposes analyzing the city through the dismantling and reassembly of urban fragments, intervals, and thresholds, to narrate what is not apparent. The investigation is structured in three parts. The first part explores the concept of ugliness itself, revisiting its etymology, its inherent characteristics, and its social history, from antiquity to the present day. Broadly speaking, ugliness is defined as a real property of the object, not an absence of beauty, and should be divided into inherent ugliness, capable of eliciting reactions of revulsion and discomfort, and relative ugliness, based on comparisons of the observer’s taste. The second part focuses on the relationship between the city and ugliness from four perspectives. The historical perspective analyzes London during the Industrial Revolution as the first Western metropolis to face large-scale urban disfigurement, based on literary accounts from the time. The collective memory perspective examines the traumatic renovations of Praça da Sé in São Paulo as cases in which judgments of obsolescence and ugliness served as a pretext for the erasure of entire historical layers of the city. The “urban landscape” perspective investigates the imprecise use of this term, suggesting that its origin derives from the British concept of “townscape,” which emerged precisely as a response to the blighting of modern cities; that is, the notion of “urban landscape” is not neutral, but emerges from aesthetic discomfort in the face of a degraded built environment, further discussing how its translation into Portuguese may have obscured this origin linked to ugliness. Finally, the philosophical perspective draws on the concepts of “environment” and “atmosphere” to describe extreme situations in which the built environment becomes toxic to the human experience. It is a form of ugliness that cannot be reduced to a matter of taste; it has a pure physical, sensory, and psychological impact on its inhabitants. The third part focuses on the photographic representation of urban ugliness. Beginning with the emergence in the 1970s of a photographic movement interested in the ordinary built environment, associated with the Düsseldorf School and the New Topographics exhibition, the thesis analyzes the Atlas fotógrafico da cidade de São Paulo e arredores, by photographer Tuca Vieira. The Atlas is interpreted not as an objective document of the city, but as a real-fictional narrative marked by the photographer’s subjectivity. The images are analyzed according to six categories of ugliness: monstrosity, humor, immorality, the relationship between old and new, otherness, and “inverdecer” (de-greening), a neologism proposed to designate the absence of vegetation in the urban environment, characterizing it as a form of ugliness that assaults the senses and mental health. It can be concluded that tackling urban ugliness requires the greening of cities in a fair and equitable manner, promoting the revival of aesthetic sensibility and memory as structural conditions for collective life. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese 2026-05-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29600 Title: SUB.URB.BIO: a memória dos moradores como construção territorial e das territorialidades da comunidade da Vila das Torres em Madureira - Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Araújo, Ana Cristina dos Santos Advisor: Santos, Renato Emerson Nascimento dos Abstract: This thesis seeks to present, analyze, construct, and discursively reconstruct the territorialities of Vila das Torres, through the social relations established in this community, and to demonstrate that these territorialities have constructed a sense of identity that remains in the subjectivity of the interviewed residents, causing them to carry the territory of the village to the places of their reterritorialization. This village originated from the vegetable gardens developed under the Light transmission towers and between the Light land and the tracks of the Central do Brasil railway line, in Madureira, a suburb of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. This village was part of the process of removing favelas for the realization of mega sporting events in Rio and Brazil, namely, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Furthermore, this study aims to question the situation of the residents of this community after the removal, as remnants of a forced displacement imposed by the State in the pursuit of Rio de Janeiro's image as a "Wonderful and Democratic City," focusing on the process of territorialization, (de)territorialization, and (re)territorialization of its residents. | analyze and problematize the discourse surrounding the creation of Madureira Park in the local/national/independent press and through the voices of its residents. | establish the "non-monetizable" losses that the community suffered with the removal and make visible the history of the community supplanted by the Madureira Park project, which exerts a process of whitening the territory within a policy of "revitalization" of the territory. For this purpose, | use Oral History and Memory as methods of constructing the territoriality of this community, as well as discourse analysis and bibliographic research to reconstruct the motivators for the removal and the struggles of the residents, among other techniques that will be better developed in the part of this work focused on methodology. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese 2025-12-15T00:00:00Z