Anthropology professor and LACLxS faculty Alessandro Angelini has received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a grant meant to support to support innovative writing projects to advance anthropological knowledge. Here are further details on the book project supported by the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cModel Favela: Miniature Life in Rio de Janeiro<\/em> explores the social life of imagination through the porous boundaries of the ludic and the real. The favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where around one-fifth of the city\u2019s 11 million inhabitants live, have emblematized rampant planetary urbanization. Yet many of Rio\u2019s most iconic favelas are neither new nor disordered: they have histories driven by complex political and economic dynamics, of which residents make their own sense. Whether cast as resource or problem, I argue that a pervasive assumption of the favela as an external reality undergirds modes of representation that make its continual rediscovery a tacit artifact of knowledge and value. The book locates this problematic among an Afro-Brazilian male youth collective who, since 1997, have fictionalized everyday experiences in a role-playing game set in a hand-built miniature model of Rio. In this 4,000-square-foot space in the forest abutting their neighborhood, they constructed a city out of bricks and myriad found objects. Drawing on conceptualizations of play situating it at the center rather than the peripheries of social life, Model Favela<\/em> traces how the so-called regularization of daily life for working-poor Brazilians comprise ludic, albeit very serious, encounters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthropology professor and LACLxS faculty\u00a0Alessandro Angelini has received\u00a0a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a grant meant to support to support innovative writing projects to advance anthropological knowledge. Here are further details on the book project supported by the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}