Brazil

Improving Urban Air Quality

Dec 30, 2003 | City Spaces, Cityscapes

In São Paulo, Santiago de Chile and Mexico City, some days you can hardly breathe the air. Likewise in Los Angeles, Beijing and Bangkok. Rapid population growth, uncontrolled urban expansion …

Harvard Forum on Human Rights in Brazil

Nov 29, 2003 | Human Rights, Thinking on Human Rights

The Harvard Forum on Human Rights in Brazil spotlights Harvard faculty and research centers engaged in human rights and Brazil-related research. It also features Brazilian scholars…

Dec 24, 2002 | The Business of Tourism, Tourism

Did you know that Brazil has awe-inspiring sites, such as the Iguazu Falls, the Itaimbezinho, and the Amazon rainforest, as well as 2,000 miles of virtually uninterrupted soft white beaches? …

Tourism, Carnaval and Citizenship

Dec 22, 2002 | History, Culture, and Identity, Tourism

It’s Carnaval 1996, and I am in Salvador for just two weeks to do fieldwork. My colleagues in São Paulo, usually respectful of my efforts as a participant observer of various forms of associational …

Rio de Janeiro’s Favela Tourism

Dec 22, 2002 | History, Culture, and Identity, Tourism

I first stumbled upon the existence of favela tourism in the glitzy lobby of a Copacabana hotel. Amongst flyers at the reception desk announcing visits to the city’s famous sights, such as …

Country: Brazil

Improving Urban Air Quality

Harvard Forum on Human Rights in Brazil

Brazil

Tourism, Carnaval and Citizenship

Rio de Janeiro’s Favela Tourism