{"pk":58113,"title":"A Festive Surveillance: Mega-Events in Rio de Janeiro","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A privileged center for the sign, the media, and the code, the city is the place par excellence for visual consumption, providing a sense of simultaneity and global interconnectedness. This is particularly clear in times of mega-events (The World Soccer Cup, The Olympic Games, The World Youth Day), when host cities receive an extraordinary influx of foreign visitors and enter in a hyper-mediated trance with the spotlights of all the TV cameras of the world. In preparation for the 2014 and 2016 mega-events, the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has experienced a permanent shock of agenda, characterized by important, accelerated, urban renewal projects accompanied by population removal and slums pacification. With the official assertion of Rio as a global city for sports and other mega-events comes a hegemonic will to blend festive public space with advertising. Based on the works of Sharon Zukin and David Harvey on visual consumption and social control, I question the production of such model of the “festive” city. In Rio de Janeiro, non-stop partying provides a convenient escape from conflict, protest, and dissent.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Rio de Janeiro, mega-events, festive surveillance, social control, visual consumption."}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mg5951n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jorge","middle_name":"","last_name":"de La Barre","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidade Federal Fluminense","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2016-01-20T16:25:02Z","date_accepted":"2016-01-20T16:25:02Z","date_published":"2016-08-09T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucdavislibrary_streetnotes/article/58113/galley/44275/download/"}]}