Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela : urban violence and daily life /

Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela : urban violence and daily life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Penglase, Ben, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Marginality, Social -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Violence -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Urban poor -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Slums -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Squatter settlements -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Drug traffic -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Police brutality -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Drug traffic -- Social aspects. Marginality, Social. Police brutality. Slums. Social conditions. Squatter settlements. Urban poor. Violence -- Social aspects. Caxambu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- Social conditions. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions. Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11236853

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ISBN:	9780813565453 0813565456 9780813565446 0813565448 9780813565439 081356543X
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Penglase, Ben. Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela 9780813565446
Standard no.:	10.36019/9780813565453.

Table of Contents:

"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."