Overview of Multi-Component Output

This output is made up of three interlinked investigations led by HERITAGE which seek to show how performance-related arts practices can produce and mobilise knowledge about processes of resilience in contexts of armed violence within 16 favelas that make up the Complexo da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All of the investigations were project managed by People’s Palace Projects (PPP), a research centre directed by HERITAGE in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL):

COMPONENT 1, Building the Barricades: Three interdisciplinary studies on mental health and substance use disorders in the context of armed violence and COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro. Principal Investigator: HERITAGE (overall responsibility for all outputs including production of new databases; specific authorship of research publications and creative outputs as indicated).

COMPONENT 2, Someone to Watch Over Me: New ways of understanding the police, culture and the favela in Rio de Janeiro. Co-Investigator: HERITAGE (specific authorship of research publications and production of creative outputs as indicated).

COMPONENT 3, Healthy, Secure and Gender Just Cities: Transnational Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Rio de Janeiro and London. Co-Investigator: HERITAGE (specific authorship of research publications and creative outputs as indicated).

a. HERITAGE's 300 word statement

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Paul HERITAGE's 300 word statement for the multi-component output - Territory, Performance and Resilience: an extended multi-platform research project undertaken in 16 favelas in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) between 2015-2021.

b. Video Statement from Eliana Sousa Silva

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In this Portuguese-language interview, Eliana Sousa SILVA introduces her research collaboration with HERITAGE, which began in 2015 and has focused on a range of challenges being experienced in Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro's largest favela agglomeration. SILVA is a former community leader from Maré, director of Maré Development Networks (long-term partner of People's Palace Projects) and has held senior research positions at the University of São Paulo and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro during the lifetime of these collaborative research projects. The interview provides an overview of the key questions being explored through this research output in relation to public security, violence against women and girls, mental health and well-being in Maré. SILVA discusses the process of identifying research imperatives, the methods and methodologies used, and the political, creative and intellectual context for the research - especially Building the Barricades (Component 1) - and how she hopes the ongoing research partnership with HERITAGE and PPP can inspire other studies rooted in human relations: research that listens to different disciplines, people and communities and establishes connections between them.

Interview by Yula Rocha de Castro. An English-language summary is provided as a physical item.

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c. A map of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Complexo da Maré

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This slideshow provides contextual and geographical information about Complexo da Maré and its communities.  

d. Flow-chart

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This flow-chart illustrates the research processes, research insights and the time/manner of dissemination. 

e. Research Funding

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A summary of research grants (2016-2020) for the multi-component output.

f. Methods of Research Production

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Information about arts and research centre People’s Palace Projects (HERITAGE: Founder and Director/CEO) and its research methodologies.