Armed peace: Militarization of Rio de Janeiro's favelas for the World Cup (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | Charlotte Livingstone |
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| Institution: | Doctoral anthropology candidate at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is currently based in Rio de Janeiro, where she is carrying out ethnographic fieldwork for her PhD thesis on youth activism and police occupation in Rio de Janeiro. |
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| Abstract: | Rio de Janeiro city's policy of Pacifying Police Units (UPP) for strategically located favelas is part of the state's reconfiguration of the city, involving military occupations, evictions and gentrification in the lead‐up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Yet since the author arrived in Rio to carry out doctoral research on young people's experiences with the UPP, the flaws in the project have become increasingly exposed as the policy appears to be experiencing a crisis. This paper describes this current crisis in the global context of mega‐events and the elitization of urban space. |
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