The Politics of Strolling

Pedro Erber

doi:10.1177/0094582X16647717

The Politics of Strolling

Pedro Erber^*

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Abstract

The large gatherings of youths from impoverished urban peripheries in the shopping malls of São Paulo and Rio, known as rolezinhos (little strolls), in the first two months of 2014 and their disputed relation to the wave of political protests in Brazilian cities since June 2013 became the topic of heated debates among intellectuals and journalists in Brazil. Historical parallels ranging from nineteenth-century Paris to colonial Korea help situate the rolezinho phenomenon in a transnational history of urban strolling and to problematize its ambiguous politicality between ostentatious consumerism and revolutionary practice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-52
Number of pages	16
Journal	Latin American Perspectives
Volume	46
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X16647717
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jul 1
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Brazil
Consumerism
Kon Wajirō
Rolezinho
Shopping malls
Strolling
Walter Benjamin

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Geography, Planning and Development
Sociology and Political Science

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