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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Penglase, Ben (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 of Caxambu. Some Brazilians see these communities, known as favelas, as centers of drug trafficking that exist beyond the control of the state and threaten the rest of the city. For other Brazilians, favelas are symbols of economic inequality and racial exclusion. Ben Penglase's ethnography goes bey.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813565453

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