Urban Latin America: Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment

About

Bianca Freire-Medeiros PhD is Sociology Professor at University of São Paulo (USP Brazil) and coordinator of the UrbanDataBrazil databank. She is one of the main references for those interested in the so-called poverty-tourism field in Brazil and abroad. Her book Touring Poverty (Routledge 2013 2015) as well as the documentary film based on her research project A Place to Take Away (2012) have been highly praised both in and outside academia. Her work has been published in several languages and she was a Visiting Researcher at Princeton University El Colegio de Mexico and Lancaster University and a Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.Julia ODonnell PhD graduated in History (University of São PauloUSP Brazil) and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ Brazil) where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are the urban history of Rio de Janeiro and the boundaries between anthropology history and literature. She has published many articles in specialized journals and is also the author of De olho na rua: a cidade de João do Rio (Zahar 2008) and A invenção de Copacabana (Zahar 2013).