Luiz Soares (2019) , the drug dealers could never have maintained their presence had they lacked solid support within the state apparatus. The deep interconnections among state officials and favela leaders have contributed to the urban violence ( Arias
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Pac'Stão versus the City of Police
Contentious Activism Facing Megaprojects, Authoritarianism, and Violence
Einar Braathen
Eluding the Esculacho
A Masculinities Perspective on the Enduring Warrior Ethos of Rio de Janeiro's Police
Celina Myrann Sørbøe
saw five years of decreasing levels of police and urban violence due to the expansion of the program, but the trend has since turned. Today, the UPPs are largely considered a failed policy. A substantial body of literature has analyzed this failure by
Mariske Westendorp, Bruno Reinhardt, Reinaldo L. Román, Jon Bialecki, Alexander Agadjanian, Karen Lauterbach, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Kate Yanina DeConinck, Jack Hunter, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Magdalena Crăciun, Roger Canals, Cristina Rocha, Khyati Tripathi, Dafne Accoroni, and George Wu Bayuga
in material religion, Latin American politics, or ethnomusicology. Roger Canals University of Barcelona OOSTERBAAN, Martijn, Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence , 264 pp., notes, bibliography, index
cohesion issues in the aforementioned continents, such as human rights, social vulnerability, risk and welfare, environmental challenges and social cohesion, the relationship between borders, states and regions and urban violence. While the relevance of
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Confinement Beyond Site: Connecting Urban and Prison Ethnographies
Julienne Weegels, Andrew M. Jefferson, and Tomas Max Martin
), as they are subjected to carceral techniques of separation and exclusion, disproportionate processing through the criminal justice system, and further marginalization (e.g. Goffman 2014 ; Wacquant 2009 ). Work on policing and urban violence in
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Migrant Residents in Search of Residences
Locating Structural Violence at the Interstices of Bureaucracies
Megan Sheehan
for their living arrangements. As these standards are differentially applied to migrants, they craft exclusions to housing, positioning migrants as marginal residents. Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero note that “this new urban violence is stratified
Extralegal Agency and the Search for Safety in Northeast Brazil
Moving beyond Carceral Logics
Hollis Moore
tend to be ‘decidedly normative and prescriptive in nature’ ( Denyer Willis 2015: 11 ) – problematize extralegality as a cause of escalating urban violence (e.g. Caldeira 2000 ; Holston and Caldeira 1999 ). In such work, violence is not approached as
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Performing humanitarian militarism
Public security and the military in Brazil
Stephanie Savell
-related urban violence—legitimize the alliance of humanitarianism and militarism in favelas. The problem with this alliance is that even in the name of humanitarianism, the resort to military force reinforces militarism as an ideology and structural response to
Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
Contrasting views from Chicago and Managua
Dennis Rodgers
. Managua . In Fractured cities: Social exclusion, urban violence and contested spaces in Latin America , ed. Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt , 71 – 85 London : Zed . Rodgers , Dennis . 2007d . When vigilantes turn bad: Gangs, violence, and
Gamed by the System
Exploring Black Male Youths’ Motivation to Participate in Sports
Deborwah Faulk, Robert A. Bennett III, and James L. Moore III
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