Brazilian Mobilities

Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of mobility studies developed in Brazil. It builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research, which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging countries from the Global South.Addressing such different areas as tourism, urbanization, media studies, social inequalities, marketing and mega-events, transport and technology, among others, the contributors use the new mobilities paradigm, or NMP (Sheller& Urry, 2006) as a starting point to reflect about the social changes experienced in the country and they also engage with newer literature on mobilities, including work done by Brazilian and Latin-American authors depending on the subject of each individual chapter.Illustrating to scholars the uniqueness and complexity of the Brazilian social-political and economic context, the book was organized in order to be a representative sample of the studies carried outin Brazil, as well as to contribute to other academic investigations on (im)mobilities and different social realities in emerging countries.

IntroductionCamila Moraes and Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira1. Moving On: How Mobile is Tourism Research on Transport in BrazilThiago Allis, Rafael Castro and Carla Fraga2. The Mobilities of the Favela and the Social Life of SouvenirsBianca Freire-Medeiros and Palloma Valle Menezes3. Green Favelas: Past, Present, and Futures of Favela Tourism in Rio de JaneiroCamila Moraes4. Rio de Janeiro’s Mobilities After COR: Social Impacts of a Smart City InitiativeJoão Alcântara de Freitas5. "I Live Here, But I’ve Never Been Inside It": Narratives on Social Tourism of the Homeless Population in the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilBernardo Lazary Cheibub and Jordania de Oliveira Eugenio6. Vulnerabilities in Movement: Experiences from the Research Project "I Exist and Move"Camila Maciel Campolina Alves Mantovani and Sônia Caldas Pessoa7. The Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Promotion of Citizenship Through the Improvement of the Conditions of Accessibility in Urban Spaces: An Application of the Project Ponto CertoMacello Medeiros, Rita Vieira and Elton Andrade8. Urban Mobility and Citizenship in Brazil: Advances in the Legal FrameworkFilipe Marino9. It is More "Pokemón" than "Go"? New Mobilities Paradigm in Locative GamesLuiz Adolfo Andrade10. Advertising Discourse from the Perspective of the New Mobilities ParadigmMaria Alice de Faria Nogueira11. #BHNASRUAS: Mobile Journalism During the June JourneysFernanda Duarte12. The Internet as a Facilitator of Mobilities in Rural AreasAriane Fernandes da Conceição and Sergio Schneider13. Why Are We Writing and Speaking in English? Coloniality of Academic Communication and Its Uneven MobilitiesLeo Name

Maria Alice de Faria Nogueirais alecturer at Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA, Brazil). She is also National Coordinator of Social Communications Undergraduate Courses–Creative Economies Department at the same institution. Her research focuses on the interconnection of (im)mobility, communication, advertising and marketing.Camila Maria dos Santos Moraes is a Tourism and Sociology Professor at Rio de Janeiro University (UNIRIO), where she coordinates the TurisData-RJ: Data base on Rio de Janeiro Tourism Reality and the Observatory of Favela Tourism.