Abstract

MANO, Apoena Dias. The “social life” of Michael Jackson’s statue in favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro: a mobile perspective over ‘regimes of value’. Etnográfica [online]. 2023, vol.27, n.1, pp.137-159.  Epub Apr 28, 2023. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.13156.

The objective of this article is to present a “cultural biography” of the Michael Jackson statue in the Santa Marta favela, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Examining the time frame between 2010 and 2018, the dynamics of urban space production are focused considering the touristic commodification and urban violence. The exposed analysis come from an ethnographic research carried out under interlocutions with a network of dwellers, entrepreneurs, tour guides and local leaders of the favela. Debating the connections among the (im)mobility of images, meanings, objects and bodies conducted by the pacifying police units (PPU) program, I argue that the “social life” of the statue in the favela can be determined by the “regimes of value” around its uses, disputes and meanings over time and space.

Keywords : urban space; statue; mobilities; favela tourism; UPP.

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