Museu de Favela: pensando turismo e patrimônio no Pavão, Pavãozinho e Cantagalo

Abstract

This dissertation examines the Museum of Favela (MUF), a nongovernmental organization founded in 2008 during construction of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) in the slums of Pavão, Pavãozinho e Cantagalo in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The main proposals of the MUF are patrimonialization the slum / her cultural elements as well as the tourist development of these favelas. From field work, participant observation of the type with the directors of MUF, I analyze the construction of its proposed tourism as opposed to the Rocinha slum, emblematic case of tourism in slums. Show the presence of two ideas regarding the tourism case study: what I call tourism villain, represented by the context of Rocinha in view of the promoters of MUF, and what I call tourism the solution, represented in the same vision for tourism organized by the residents for benefit of local people and solving problems of slums. Further analyze the proposal of MUF, your organization as an NGO and its directors. Finally, I focus on the Museum of Favela and the state as the basic social actors involved in the issue examined, showing how heritage tourism and appear as tools for both institutions, which hold similarities and differences regarding the two ongoing processes in the slums of the Pavão, Pavãozinho e Canatagalo: the patrimonialization process and the tourismizacion process.