Assignment:
For this assignment, please write a half to 1-full page, single-space and 11 to 12 font in Times New Roman, a critical analysis summation on the piece assigned in relation to some of the key thematics for this week: emerging global cultures, clashing of cultures, gentrification, decolonization, state of alterity (otherness), moral relativity, alienation of the other, counter-violence, state-sanctioned violence, globalization, modernity, post-colonial democracy, white (body) patriarchal supremacy, colonization, colonialism, western imperialism, western hegemony, manifest destiny, counter-hegemony, identity politics, self-hate, genocide, ecocide and ethnocide. In other words, deconstruct, deconstruct, deconstruct. There is no right or wrong answer, all I ask is to think critically about the reading and find relevancy in it and most significantly your positionality in the world. If you can not relate, state why.
Readings:
Urban Renewal, Favelas, and Guanabara Bay: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN RIO DE JANEIRO
By BRIAN J. GODFREY