Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela [electronic resource] : urban violence and daily life / R. Ben Penglase.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (page cm)ISBN: - 9780813565453
- 0813565456
- 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
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions
- Caxambu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- Social conditions
- 307.3/364098153 23
- HN290.R5 P46 2014
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".
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