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Penglase, Ben.

Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela urban violence and daily life / [electronic resource] : R. Ben Penglase. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (page cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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".

ISBN: 9780813565453 0813565456

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Social conditions.
Caxambu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)--Social conditions.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HN290.R5 / P46 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 307.3/364098153