A utopia da comunidade - Rio das Pedras, uma favela carioca is available in most major bookstores, and online via livraria travessa on this link, or via livraria saraiva here. Published by Editora FGV in 2005, the book A invençăo da favela: do mito de origem ŕ favela (The invention of the favela: the myth of the origin of the favela), by sociologist Licia do Prada Valladares takes readers on a journey, interrogating the origin of prejudice against favela populations. It is a highly inventive academic work with an impressive degree of breadth and depth, considering both material and symbolic dimensions that constitute social reality - The inter-disciplinary research seeks to uncover the metamorphoses of the Rio slum in the minds of the city's governors and inhabitants.
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