A woman and a young girl by the edge of a river with trees in the background, the girl is leaning over the water.

Books

Caring for Children on the River

Book cover titled 'Cartography of the Favela’ with a map of Recife and Olinda in the background, and a colorful, detailed map overlay at the bottom.

Caring for Children on the River: The health of children in rural areas of the state of Amazonas

:Cartography of the Favela: Understanding community resources for peace in the favelas of Recife.

Street signs on a wall, one labeled 'Calle de La Agonia,' another 'Rua da Agonia,' with a yellow sign below reading 'Uma reflexão sobre o masquismo e a política' by Kurt Shaw.
A young person holding a gun to their head with a worried expression, another person aiming a rifle at the first, with a field in the background. Text in Spanish discusses cinema and peace.

Agony Street: On the relations between masochism and politics.

Cover of a book titled 'KIDVID: And popular education' by Kurt Shaw, featuring panels with scenes from animated shows or comics involving characters like a fish, a mad scientist, and a creature, with dialogue in Spanish.

Theater of War, Cinema of Peace: Teaching film to ex-child soldiers in Colombia

KidVid and Popular Education: How to use children’s movies to teach philosophy and politics.

Black and white book cover for 'Toward a General Theory Of the Street' by Kurt Shaw, featuring a young man with glasses leaning on a building and looking into the distance, with tall buildings in the background.
Book cover of 'Tolstoy Kicks Ass’ by Kurt Shaw, featuring a dark hooded figure in a dimly lit alley or street scene with a gritty, noir atmosphere.

For a General Theory of the Street: Results of a Five Year Study of best practices of working with street kids..

Tolstoy kicks Ass! A novel about life for street kids in New York.

Academic Articles

Shaw K and da Silva RdCO (2023) One size (doesn’t) fit all: new metaphors for and practices of scaling from indigenous peoples of the Northwest Amazon. Front. Public Health. 11:1166134. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166134

Silva, Rita de Cácia Oenning e Shaw, Kurt. “Look Upstream: Measurement for Innovation on the Upper Rio Negro of the Amazon Basin” Front. Pediatr., 27 January 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2020.567257

Silva, Rita de Cácia Oenning e Shaw, Kurt. “CanalCanoa: strengthening indigenous values to improve early childhood development.” Early Childhood Matters, 2020. https://earlychildhoodmatters.online/2020/canalcanoa-strengthening-indigenous-values-to-improve-early-childhood-development/

Silva, Rita de Cácia Oenning e Shaw, Kurt. “Sentinels of Privilege and the Ressentiment of the Powerful: The New Right in Brazil”. TNI Longreads, 2017. https://longreads.tni.org/es/sentinels-of-privilege-brazil

Silva, Rita de Cácia Oenning e Shaw, Kurt. “Hip Hop and Sociality in a Brazilian Favela.” Chapter 7 in Waibel, Michael, Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal. London: Routledge: 2016.

Silva, Rita de Cácia Oenning e Shaw, Kurt. “Kinderen in Brazilië leren ons: afgunst voedt populisme”. De Correspondent (Holanda). 27 november 2018. https://decorrespondent.nl/8924/kinderen-in-brazilie-leren-ons-afgunst-voedt-populisme/4329869837084-875a6ed6

Silva, Rita de Cácia Oenning e Shaw, Kurt. “Understanding gang violence in the favelas of Recife.” Early Childhood Matters, Nov 13, 2012. https://issuu.com/bernardvanleerfoundation/docs/community_violence_and_young_children_making_space