Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela : Urban Violence and Daily Life /

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The residents of Caxambu, a squatter neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, live in a state of insecurity as they face urban violence. Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela examines how inequality, racism, drug trafficking, police brutality, and gang activities affect the daily lives of the people o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Penglase, Ben (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Violence > Social aspects.
Urban poor.
Squatter settlements.
Social conditions.
Slums.
Police brutality.
Marginality, Social.
Drug traffic > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
TRAVEL > South America > Brazil.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Brutalites policieres > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Drogues > Trafic > Aspect social > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Bidonvilles > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Violence > Aspect social > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Police brutality > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Drug traffic > Social aspects > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Squatter settlements > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Urban poor > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Violence > Social aspects > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Marginality, Social > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Caxambu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "To live here you have to know how to live"
  • "Now you know what it's like" : ethnography in a state of (in)security
  • A familiar hillside and dangerous intimates
  • Tubarão and Seu Lázaro's dog : drug-traffickers and abnormalization
  • "The men are in the area" : police, race and place
  • Conclusion : "it was here that Estella was shot."

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