TY - JOUR

T1 - Rio de Janeiro and the divided state

T2 - analysing the political discourse on favelas

AU - Lacerda, Daniel S.

PY - 2015/1

Y1 - 2015/1

N2 - This article analyses the discourse on favelas produced by Brazilian society and consumed in the political field of local administration. The ideological conception of favelas (slums) determines the creation of public policies that reinforce the prejudicial notion of favelas. This work employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse several texts extracted from mass-media stories and press releases of the Rio government. It shows that the state of praxis reproduces the understanding of slums as a phenomenon detached from the rest of society. This alienated vision impacts on different utterances blaming the poor (analysis 1); perpetuating poverty (analysis 2); and reinforcing exclusion (analysis 3).

AB - This article analyses the discourse on favelas produced by Brazilian society and consumed in the political field of local administration. The ideological conception of favelas (slums) determines the creation of public policies that reinforce the prejudicial notion of favelas. This work employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse several texts extracted from mass-media stories and press releases of the Rio government. It shows that the state of praxis reproduces the understanding of slums as a phenomenon detached from the rest of society. This alienated vision impacts on different utterances blaming the poor (analysis 1); perpetuating poverty (analysis 2); and reinforcing exclusion (analysis 3).

KW - Brazil

KW - critical discourse analysis

KW - dialectical relational approach

KW - discourse historical approach

KW - favelas

KW - Rio de Janeiro

KW - political discourse

KW - slums

U2 - 10.1177/0957926514541346

DO - 10.1177/0957926514541346

M3 - Journal article

VL - 26

SP - 74

EP - 94

JO - Discourse and Society

JF - Discourse and Society

SN - 0957-9265

IS - 1

ER -