Interview with Danilo Cajazeira Preparations for major sporting events are often accompanied by the gentrification process enabled by the construction of infrastructure. Brazil is very relevant for this kind of issue, considering that in the next two years I will host two major events – the World Cup of 2014 and the Summer Olympics of 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. 2013 brought with it a surge in protests and resistance to the abuse and injustice inherent in the preparations for these events. I talked about all this with Danilo Cajazeira, a geography teacher and amateur footballer, member of the Sao …

Interview with Enikő Vincze In Decemver 2010, 76 families from Coastei Street in Cluj-Napoca (most of them Roma) were relocated in the vicinity of the city garbage dump at Pata Rât, alongside other ghettoized communities: the one from Dallas and the one from Cantonului Street. Shortly thereafter, the houses from Coastei Street were demolished so that no trace of them would be left. In late May 2011, next to where the houses once stood, authorities and priests laid the foundation for a campus for the Faculty of Theology. The dislocated inhabitants who were now living next to the garbage dump …