RT Book
T1 The spectacular favela: violence in modern Brazil
T2 California series in public anthropology
JF California series in public anthropology
A1 Robb Larkins, Erika 1977-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1614856133
AB "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
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN a
SN 0520282760
SN 0520282779
SN 9780520282766
SN 9780520282773
K1 Violence : Social aspects : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro
K1 Violence : Economic aspects : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro
K1 Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) : Social conditions
K1 Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) : Economic conditions
K1 Rio de Janeiro : Slum : Gewalttätigkeit : Drogenhandel : Tourismus