Abstract

NAME, Leo  and  FREIRE-MEDEIROS, Bianca. Cable cars in the landscape of the Latin-American “favela”: mobilities and colonialities. GOT [online]. 2017, n.11, pp.263-282. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2017.11.012.

Based on a dialogue between the reflections produced in the New Mobilities Paradigm and the Decolonial Studies, we examine the cable cars that since the last decade are spectacular part of landscape of the poor and segregated areas of Latin America. Our premise is that in the context of strategic urban planning this new mobility is an expressive intervention that generates competitiveness due to the new visual landmarks that it inserts in the landscape and the new images that institute. Far more than neutral technical options for urban transportation, these cable cars inaugurate a visual regime that designs an idea of modernity and promises social change, but which in fact converts poverty, as a colonial difference, into aesthetic and symbolic value.

Keywords : cable cars; landscape; image; favela; Latin America; New Mobilities Paradigm; Decolonial Studies.

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