R Ben Penglase

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela

Urban Violence and Daily Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565439
• ISBN-10: 081356543X
• Artikelnr.: 41049474

Autorenporträt

Penglase, R. Ben

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1          “To Live Here You Have to Know How to Live”
2          “Now You Know What It’s Like”: Ethnography in a State of
(In)security
3          A Familiar Hillside and Dangerous Intimates
4          Tubarão and Seu Lázaro’s Dog: Drug-Traffickers and
Abnormalization
5          “The Men Are in the Area”: Police, Race, and Place
6          Conclusion: “It was Here That Estella Was Shot”
Notes
References
Index