Titles marked in bold are the most directly relevant or useful for the seminar.

• Allen, A., 2013. Shifting Perspectives on Marginal Bodies and Spaces: Relationality, Power, and Social Difference in the Documentary Films Babilônia 2000 and Estamira. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 32(1), pp.78–93. (Moodle)
• Allen, A., 2017. Shifting Horizons: Urban Space and Social Difference in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary and Photography. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. (CLAS Library)
• Almeida, M., 2006. Estamira: A Salvação no Lixo. Digestivo Cultural. 
• Babenco, H., 1982. Pixote, Brazil.
• Benjamin, W., 2006. The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire. In M. W. Jennings, ed. The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 46–133 (Moodle)
• Carvalho de Ávila Jacintho, A., 2008. Da Exclusão à Construcção do Mundo: Estamira e os Tesouros do Lixo. In Web-based publications of the 9th Brazilian Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology, 2008. IX Congresso Brasileiro de Psicopatologia Fundamental. Universidade Federal Fluminense: Psicopatologia Fundamental (web site). 
• Castells, M., 1996. The Space of Flows. In The Rise of the Network Society (The Information Age: Economy, Society, Culture, vol. 1). Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 376–428.(Moodle)
• Coutinho, E., 1992. Boca de Lixo, Brazil.
• Furtado, J., 1989. Ilha das Flores, Brazil.
• Harvey, D., 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Kantaris, G., 2003. The Young and the Damned: Street Visions in Latin American Cinema. In S. M. Hart & R. Young, eds. Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies. London: Arnold, pp. 177–189. (Moodle)
• Muniz, V. & Walker, L., 2010. Waste Land (Press Notes).
• Paes Henriques, R., 2008. A Psicose em Cena: Schreber, Aimée, Joyce e Estamira. In Web-based publications of the 9th Brazilian Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology, 2008. IX Congresso Brasileiro de Psicopatologia Fundamental. Universidade Federal Fluminense: Psicopatologia Fundamental (web site). Available at: http://www.psicopatologiafundamental.org/pagina-temas-livres-459.
• Prado, M., 2004. Estamira, Brazil.
• Rancière, J., 2004. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, London: Continuum.
• Santos, D. & Fux, J., 2011. Estamira e Lixo Extraordinário: a arte na terra desolada. Ipotesi: Revista de Estudios Literários, 15(2), pp.125–137. (Moodle)
• Sganzerla, R., 1968. O Bandido da Luz Vermelha, Brazil.
• Stam, R., 1999. Palimpsestic Aesthetics: A Meditation on Hybridity and Garbage. In M. Joseph & J. Fink, eds. Performing Hybridity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (ebook)
• Walker, L., Harley, K. & Jardim, J., 2010. Waste Land (Lixo Extraordinário), UK & Brazil.