Military Intervention and the War Against the Poor in the City of Rio de Janeiro

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17648/dilemas.v13n3.23016

Keywords:

Rio de Janeiro, public safety, criminal control, urban violence, neoliberalism

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the federal intervention in the field of public security in Rio de Janeiro in 2018 from a historical reconstruction of the militarized security projects within the war metaphor. It is argued that the federal intervention operates in continuity with the repressive paradigm that initially sought to pacify areas unintegrated to the order constituted for the functioning of the neoliberal corporate city. However, it opens a new chapter in the populist management of public security in Rio, deepening and updating the war against the poor slum dwellers by spreading fear.

Author Biographies

Ana Carolina Batista Morellato, Faculdade de Direito de Vitória (FDV)

Aluna-pesquisadora no grupo de pesquisa Direito, Sociedade e Cultura e discente em Direito pela Faculdade de Vitória (FDV).

André Filipe Pereira Reid dos Santos, Faculdade de Direito de Vitória (FDV)

Professor-pesquisador do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Direitos e Garantias Fundamentais da Faculdade de Direito de Vitória (FDV, Brasil).É doutor pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia (PPGSA) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brasil).

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Published

2020-09-14

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2020): SET/OUT/NOV/DEZ

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