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  Framing the World Cup: Competing Discourses of Favela Pacification as a Mega-Event Legacy in Brazil

  Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 2012

  In November of 2010, Brazilian military and police officers rolled through the streets of Complexo de Alemão, Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela, in an effort to ‘take back’ the community from notorious drug traffickers in time for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
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  50 years of urbanization in Africa: examining the role of climate change

  World Bank, 2014

  For the last 50 years, much of Africa has experienced a decline in moisture availability with the strongest decline happening in areas that were already relatively dry. This trend has affected agricultural productivity and contributed to increased urban migration.
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  Modernizing China in the Olympic spotlight: China’s national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad

  Princeton University Library, 2006

  The XXIX Olympiad is coming to Beijing at a critical juncture of the world history of globalization and the Chinese history of grand socioeconomic 
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  Anticipating 2011

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2009

  This book chapter reviews the costs and potential benefits of the hosting of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Incorporating interviews with the respective host city managers of the event, the author seeks to assess what the impacts of previous hosting of mega events might mean for South Africa. He offers a number of conclusions, including:
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  The pacification of the favelas: mega-events, global competitiveness and the neutralization of marginality

  Socialist Studies, 2013

  Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host two major sporting events in the coming years: the 2014 FIFA World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Local authorities are promoting these mega events as an opportunity to increase the global competitiveness of the city.
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  Key challenges of security provision in rapidly urbanising contexts: Evidence from Kathmandu Valley and Terai regions of Nepal

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  We know that urban violence not only affects people’s health and wellbeing, it has a devastating impact on the social fabric and economic prospects of entire cities. It can also set recursive cycles of vulnerability in motion – violence-affected individuals find it increasingly harder to be gainfully employed, while poverty is sustained through inter generational transfers.
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  A local vision of climate adaptation: Participatory urban planning in Mozambique

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014

  This report explores the outcomes of the project, Public Private People Partnerships for Climate Compatible Development (4PCCD) which ran from 2011 to 2013 and asked: can local views be represented fairly in national and municipal planning processes through a partnership approach?
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  Learning social accountability together: civil society facilitated South-South cooperation in India, Bangladesh and Cambodia

  Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014

  Asian cities have been central drivers of Asia’s economic growth in the last few decades. However, a democratic deficit in many small and medium size Asian cities means municipalities fail to deliver key service provisions to citizens, and civil society engagement in urban governance and institutions remains very limited.
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  South-South knowledge sharing for the inclusion of the urban Poor- India-South Africa Praxis

  Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014

  Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is a social movement of the urban poor which began in India, networked initially in Asia and then moved to South Africa, and to the other parts of Africa.
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  Smarter policing: tracking the influence of new Information Technology in Rio de Janeiro

  Igarape Institute, 2013

  Technological advancements are changing the architecture of police-society relations around the world. New modes of oversight, whether applied by public security entities or citizens, are dramatically transforming the way policing is conducted. 

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