Hygienisation, Gentrification, and Urban Displacement in Brazil

Or how is this a trend when they’re displacing our people, leading to their deaths? https://t.co/ALNfDlXX61 https://t.co/fp9Z6TSOaK

« Hygienism not only changed the ways urban poverty and informality were conceptualised in Brazil: it helped establish “the favela” as a place of contagion, hazardous to the city if not quarantined and eradicated. » https://t.co/8Zg5Cd9rmR

In Brazil, informal settlements were both born and also routinely targeted by state violence in the name of public health. Urban displacement as a consequence of hygienist policies became a distinct form of gentrification in Brazil called « hygienisation »

RT @LSE_LACC: This new article by LACC Visiting Fellow @mattyrichy and @jeffgarmany (@unimelb) outlines the concept of Brazilian 'hygienisa…