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21st-Century Brasília: Spatial Negotiations in Cultural Texts
In learning about Brasília, we
learn about the power of place, not as deriving from some static,
unchanging location, but from the
dynamic
negotiations that unfold there. Drawing on theory related to
social
space and cultural geography, particularly that of Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey, this study analyzes
cultural texts
concerned
with the negotiations that imbue the city with meaning. Four of Brasília’s contemporary cultural texts shed light on the spatial negotiations
that continuously transform the city and shape the subjectivities of its
residents: Ellen
Oléria’s song “Senzala (a feira da Ceilândia),” Viela 17’s song “20 de 40,” Sexy Fi’s album Nunca te vi de boa, and Augusto Rodrigues’s
poetry collection Do livro de carne (brasílias invisíveis).