Bibliograph

The spectacular favela, violence in modern Brazil, Erika Robb Larkins

Type

Label

The spectacular favela, violence in modern Brazil, Erika Robb Larkins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The spectacular favela

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

894745465

Responsibility statement

Erika Robb Larkins

Series statement

California series in public anthropology, 32

Sub title

violence in modern Brazil

Summary

"This book examines the political economy of violence in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Rocinha. Based on over two years of research and residence in the community, it offers an ethnographic account of how entangled forms of violence become essential forces shaping everyday social relations in the favela. The first part of the book shows how armed actors--drug traffickers and police--use spectacle to perform power. Yet despite the prevalence of physical violence, the favela has itself become a valuable global brand, consumed in disembodied fashion through media and in embodied fashion through tourism. Exploring media and favela tourism, the second part of the book demonstrates how the social relationships that arise from ongoing favela violence have a direct relationship to the market economy"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The narco-traffic -- The penal state -- Favela, Inc. -- The tourists -- "Peace."

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