From the in / visibility of representation to the politics of belonging in networks of young associativism in the Luso-Brazilian suburbs

Authors

  • Rosana Martins Post doctoral reseacher at Centre for Media and Journalism CIMJ, New University of Lisbon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS732013684

Keywords:

youth, globalization, social media, hiphop

Abstract

Hip Hop culture in São Paulo (Brazil) and Lisbon (Portugal) is characterized as a social practice that enables greater visibility and assists in identity formation amongst the younger residents of impoverished urban neighbourhoods, often young blacks. Here the hip-hop helps to generate new understandings of self, reduces social stigma and as such, provides an effective tool in the fight against racism and other forms of discrimination and exclusion. How these individuals define and represent themselves socially? How do they define their representations and practices? What is the impact of such actions in local benefiting communities? The purpose of this work is focused how the young people in São Paulo and Lisbon appropriate of the hip-hop culture in them collective actions, which it will lead them to seek conceptual framework that could direct us to a critical reflection on issues of "belonging", "tradition", "rupture" and "continuity".

Author Biography

Rosana Martins, Post doctoral reseacher at Centre for Media and Journalism CIMJ, New University of Lisbon

Rosana Martins is a Social Scientist at University of Sao Paulo (USP). Martins holds both a Masters and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the School of Communications and Arts, USP. She is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Media and Journalism Research Centre at the New University of Lisbon, and holds the position of Associate Researcher at Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies in Communication and Consciouness, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition, Rosana is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, at Goldsmiths University, London. Martins is also a contributory member of The Transnational Lives, Gender and Mobility network with the University of Lisbon/European Science Foundation.

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Published

2013-09-17

How to Cite

Martins, R. (2013). From the in / visibility of representation to the politics of belonging in networks of young associativism in the Luso-Brazilian suburbs. Observatorio (OBS*), 7(3). https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS732013684

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2013)

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