Rolezinhos no shopping: some food for thought one year later

In December last year, the term ‘rolezinho’ circulated in the Brazilian news media. It was used to describe social gatherings of youth in shopping centres across the country. In this post, Inés Alvarez-Gortari reflects on what rolezinhos can tell us about the current state of Brazilian social development in terms of the raise of the ‘new’ working class and the fragmented urbanisation in Brazilian cities.