This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militiamen in the city of Rio de Janeiro and in the Baixada Fluminense region. It is mainly intended to examine and compare the tensions created by the territorialization of social housing policies into drug gang-controlled favelas and militia-controlled areas. To conduct this examination, I specifically sought to grasp how the interactions between public policy agents and illicit market actors can be framed (in the goffmanian sense) to avoid the use of force and how different interactional framings impact drug and illegal security markets. My fieldwork and interviews with community workers allowed me to identify two lines of argument successful in ...
In a context characterized by a sharp decline in homicides in the city of Sao Paulo, this article ex...
This article draws on ethnographic fielword carried out in some ‘favelas’ and public low-income hous...
Atualmente, o espaço urbano apresenta intensas contradições e elevadas taxas de criminalidade. Diant...
This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militia...
This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the illicit drug market by comparing ret...
This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the illicit drug market by comparing ret...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
By dealing with a variety of criminal situations that are qualified as "Organized Crime", this artic...
Examining Rio de Janeiro's milícias (‘militias’) through a ‘coercive brokerage’ concept can reveal h...
The article comments on a new generation of researchers studying the illegal markets in Brazil. In d...
This article intends to approach the drug trade from the perspective of its capillary network in the...
This paper addresses the spatial discontinuities produced by the dynamics of armed conflict and agre...
This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Z...
Esse artigo se baseia em um trabalho de campo desenvolvido no interior de algumas favelas e conjunto...
This article explores the hypothesis of how the changes in the connection between drug retail and wh...
In a context characterized by a sharp decline in homicides in the city of Sao Paulo, this article ex...
This article draws on ethnographic fielword carried out in some ‘favelas’ and public low-income hous...
Atualmente, o espaço urbano apresenta intensas contradições e elevadas taxas de criminalidade. Diant...
This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militia...
This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the illicit drug market by comparing ret...
This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the illicit drug market by comparing ret...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
By dealing with a variety of criminal situations that are qualified as "Organized Crime", this artic...
Examining Rio de Janeiro's milícias (‘militias’) through a ‘coercive brokerage’ concept can reveal h...
The article comments on a new generation of researchers studying the illegal markets in Brazil. In d...
This article intends to approach the drug trade from the perspective of its capillary network in the...
This paper addresses the spatial discontinuities produced by the dynamics of armed conflict and agre...
This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Z...
Esse artigo se baseia em um trabalho de campo desenvolvido no interior de algumas favelas e conjunto...
This article explores the hypothesis of how the changes in the connection between drug retail and wh...
In a context characterized by a sharp decline in homicides in the city of Sao Paulo, this article ex...
This article draws on ethnographic fielword carried out in some ‘favelas’ and public low-income hous...
Atualmente, o espaço urbano apresenta intensas contradições e elevadas taxas de criminalidade. Diant...