Title image: A neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro (Photographed by Hyun Shin in 2010)
Together with Michel Nicolau, who was a visiting fellow in my department with the financial support from the Urban Studies Foundation (International Fellowship), I have written a piece about the Rio Olympic Games, an assessment six months after its closing.
It’s available from the openDemocracy.net on the following link:
Excerpt:
Rio helped to legitimate a discourse that states that in during extraordinary circumstances, it is fair to make huge transfers of wealth from public to private interests, from lower to upper classes, from the poor to the rich.
