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Articles | Volume 75, issue 4
Articles | Volume 75, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-381-2020
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Articles | Volume 75, issue 4
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12 Nov 2020
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Epistemic injustice, risk mapping and climatic events: analysing epistemic resistance in the context of favela removal in Rio de Janeiro

Luciana Mendes Barbosa and Gordon Walker

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When authorities act apparently to protect communities from risks, including those made worse by climate change, there can be other motives at work. Through research in Rio de Janeiro we analyse how a favela clearance policy was brought in after landslides in 2010 with only weak technical justification. Favela dwellers, activists and counter-experts formed a network to contest these moves, challenge the risk assessments undertaken and build a partially successful resistance to an unjust policy.
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