Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela urban violence and daily life

Living with insecurity in a Brazilian favela : urban violence and daily life / R. Ben Penglase.

Author/creator	Penglase, Ben
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014].
Description	xi, 210 page ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Marginality, Social--Brazil --Rio de Janeiro. Violence--Social aspects --Brazil --Rio de Janeiro. 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. Caxambu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)--Social conditions. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Social conditions.

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".
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013042859
ISBN	9780813565446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780813565439 (pbk.)

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