Abstract
The Olympic Park was the core of the Rio 2016 Olympics, hosting 16 of all the 28 Olympic sports. The chosen location was a publicly owned car racing track located at the burgeoning city’s West Zone. However, the car racing track employed 1500 people, many of whom lived nearby in the favela Vila Autódromo, which housed nearly 500 low-income families. This chapter analyses the strategy used by the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park redevelopment coalition against those unwilling to move from Vila Autódromo during the land clearance process, based on the theoretical and methodological frameworks established in Chapter 1 and already operationalized in Chapter 2. The study analyzed 108 institutional documents, 622 media files and 13 interviews conducted by the author, providing a detailed panorama of the tactical hierarchy, which is divided into forefront, supporting, and rearguard tactics.
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Omena, E. (2023). The Hegemonic Weakness of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park Project. In: The Games of Land Dispossession. Marx, Engels, and Marxisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7536-5_3
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