Identity, geography and citizenship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Street occupations: urban vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1925, by Patricia Acerbi, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2017, 216 pp., US$29.95 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-4773-1356-5: Postcards from Rio: favelas and the contested geographies of citizenship, by Kátia da Costa Bezerra, New York, Fordham University Press, 2017, 208 pp., US$28 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-8232-7655-4: Squatting in Rio de Janeiro: constructing citizenship and gender from below, by Bea Wittger, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag [Columbia University Press], 2017, 358 pp., US$45 (pbk), ISBN 978-3-8376-3547-8