# Resisting Olympic Evictions, Vol. 1

By **Adam Talbot**

- ISBN-13: 9781526197825
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- Published: 23 Jun 2026

## About this book

By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming and homely, directly contesting the myth of marginality – the noti

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