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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro : Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Palgrave's Critical Policing StudiesPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 Online-Ressource (341 pages)ISBN:- 9783031490279
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PPN: PPN: 1916226264Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Competing Interests -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Cosmologies of War -- The Racialized Necropolitics and Predation of Colonial Warfare -- Cultural Warfare and the Religious Battle Between Good and Evil -- War Machine and State Dynamics -- Multiple Sovereignties -- Structure of the Book -- A Note on Ethics and Positionality -- "The Only Politician That Cares About Us!" -- References -- 2 Favela/Asfalto -- The Outsiders Gaze -- Favelado -- Police and Thieves -- Neoliberal Militarization -- You Can't Call It Pacification If It Doesn't Bring Peace! -- Conclusion: Civilizing Violence -- References -- 3 Policing in Rio de Janeiro -- The Police and the Elites -- Access -- Conclusion: Modernizing the Police -- References -- 4 The Postcard and the Frontline -- The Postcard -- The Frontline -- Asserting Authority -- Conclusion: Transformation and Elimination -- References -- 5 Police Masculinities -- Bitches -- Guerilla Warriors -- BOPE Light -- Conclusion: Militant Masculinity -- References -- 6 Violent Becomings -- Military Hierarchy -- Eduardo Ferreira -- The Last Slaves of Brazil -- Police Moralism -- Emotions -- Conclusion: The Slave-Soldier -- References -- 7 Modernizing Warriors -- Tactical Training -- Human Rights -- Winning Allies -- Eliminating the Enemy -- War and Sex -- Conclusion: The Politics of Violence -- References -- 8 A World of Warfare -- Security Entrepreneurs -- Spoils of War -- Warzones -- Monkey Hands -- Past My Expiration Date -- Conclusion: Entrepreneurialism and Predation -- References -- 9 The War Machine -- The Coup -- The Chief of the Warrior Clan -- The War Machine and State Dynamics of Right-Wing Populism -- Conclusion: (Dis)order and Progress -- References -- Epilogue -- Post-War Brazil -- Reference -- Index.
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