Favela Resistance: Urban Periphery, Pacification, and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty - Tapa blanda

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Timo Bartholl engages in local grassroots work and has
lived in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro, since 2008. He works at the
interface of university and community, is a geography professor at the
Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói, Brazil, and a founding
member of the Roça! Collective. Geographies in movement(s), militant
investigation, favela resistance, urban struggles related to food
sovereignty/food autonomy, collective economies and geopolitics from a
global south perspective are his key fields of interest.

Christos Filippidis is an architect with a research
background in critical urban geopolitics. He is currently an Independent
Social Research Foundation Fellow in the Department of Architecture,
University of Ioannina, Greece, investigating the urbanization of the
Global South within the Cold War context.

Antonis Vradis is an urban geographer based at the
University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is the director of the
university's Radical Urban Lab, a new research unit that tries to cut
across hierarchies and to research, in a more egalitarian manner, some
of the most pressing urban questions of today.

Minhocas Urbanas was the Maré based community action research group of Favela Resistance. It consisted of Maré residents Geandra Nobre do Nascimento, Alessandra de Lima, Bruna Pierroux, and local coordinator Timo Bartholl, at the time all members of Minhocas Urbanas's local research partner the Roça! Collective; Joelma Nobre do Nascimento de Oliveira, a local market vendor; Amanda Mendonça, a social assistant and public health specialist; Jamylle Andrade, a nutritionist, Naldinho Lourenço, a community media activist; and Juliana de Medeiros Diniz, an agroecological farmer from the periurban area of Magé.