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Author Penglase, Ben, author.

Title Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela : urban violence and daily life / R. Ben Penglase
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
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."
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
TRAVEL -- South America -- Brazil.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Drug traffic -- Social aspects
Marginality, Social
Police brutality
Slums
Social conditions
Squatter settlements
Urban poor
Violence -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Caxambu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- Social conditions
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions
Subject Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813565453
0813565456