classes meet the advances of the new citizens with strategies of segregation, privatization and fortification” ( Holston 1998: 52 ). The preparations for the sport mega-events in Rio de Janeiro—the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics—deepened and made
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Pac'Stão versus the City of Police
Contentious Activism Facing Megaprojects, Authoritarianism, and Violence
Einar Braathen
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 145–164 (20 total)
Eluding the Esculacho
A Masculinities Perspective on the Enduring Warrior Ethos of Rio de Janeiro's Police
Celina Myrann Sørbøe
Zaluar 2017 ). The police officers were from the Police “Pacification” Unit (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora—UPP) program in Rio de Janeiro, one of the most debated public security projects in Latin America in recent years. The program started as an ad
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 68–85 (18 total)
Racialized Governance
The Production and Destruction of Secure Spaces in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Alexandre Magalhães
, we work, we pay taxes … The working class doesn't have money to rent apartments, that's why we go to the favelas.” In Rio de Janeiro, urban planning cannot be meaningfully separated from security concerns. The contents of such concerns are outcomes
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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The Permeable Olympic Fortress
Mega-Event Security as Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro
Dennis Pauschinger
On an early afternoon of Rio's Olympic summer in August 2016, I was sitting in the Special Forces’ sleeping and locker room in Cidade da Políca (Police City), one of the two Civil Police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The police officers, all
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 108–127 (20 total)
Introduction
Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
Mega-events and Securitization during the Pink Tide in Brazil When thinking back to the period when Rio de Janeiro prepared to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, international audiences may remember images of military
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Introduction
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- 52–67 (16 total)
The Power of Silence
Sonic Experiences of Police Operations and Occupations in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
Sterre Gilsing
-talkies used for communication by perpetrators, and maybe the calm or stressed voice of someone giving commands. What impressed me most while doing ethnographic fieldwork in favelas in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, however, was the silence: the silence
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 128–144 (17 total)
Emergent Police States
Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio's Favelas to Bolsonaro
Tomas Salem and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
The Favela-Colony Like that of most Brazilian megacities, Rio de Janeiro's landscape is divided between areas commonly referred to as asfalto (lit. “asphalt”)—the “formal” city—and areas known as favelas ( Figure 1 ). Favelas are often
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Reconfigurations of Domestic Space in Favelas
Brief Reflections on Intimacies and Precariousness
Carolina Parreiras
This brief article aims to reflect on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic restructures intimacies, and the ways in which people relate to each other and to the domestic environment in a group of favelas located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- 52–56 (5 total)
Performing humanitarian militarism
Public security and the military in Brazil
Stephanie Savell
In November 2010, a series of conspicuous public bus burnings and gunfire attacks on private vehicles appalled Rio de Janeiro residents. Officials responded by targeting the notorious drug trafficking organization Comando Vermelho (CV) in Complexo
Jason Bartholomew Scott
Following the 2016 impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, favela-based activists struggled to defend their communities. For years, anti-police activists had risen to fame as social media