The spectacular favela : violence in modern Brazil /

The spectacular favela : violence in modern Brazil /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Robb Larkins, Erika, 1977- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 32
California series in public anthropology ; 32.
Subject:
Violence -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Violence -- Economic aspects -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Violence -- Economic aspects.
Violence -- Social aspects.
Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- Social conditions.
Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- Economic conditions.
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Rocinha.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383076
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780520958692
0520958691
9780520282766
0520282760
9780520282773
0520282779
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"This book examines the political economy of violence in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Rocinha. Based on over two years of research and residence in the community, it offers an ethnographic account of how entangled forms of violence become essential forces shaping everyday social relations in the favela. The first part of the book shows how armed actors--drug traffickers and police--use spectacle to perform power. Yet despite the prevalence of physical violence, the favela has itself become a valuable global brand, consumed in disembodied fashion through media and in embodied fashion through tourism. Exploring media and favela tourism, the second part of the book demonstrates how the social relationships that arise from ongoing favela violence have a direct relationship to the market economy"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Robb Larkins, Erika, 1977- Spectacular favela 9780520282766

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