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Book SynopsisLiving with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela examines how inequality, racism, drug trafficking, police brutality, and gang activities affect the daily lives of the people of Caxambu. Ben Penglase argues that urban violence and a larger context of inequality create a social world that is deeply contradictory and ambivalent.
Trade Review"Penglase draws the reader's gaze toward dimensions of urban violence often eclipsed by accounts of dramatic events. In doing so, he crafts a compelling ethnography that will surely become required reading for students and scholars interested in violence, urban space, and contemporary Latin America." * American Anthropologist *
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Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela is a worthy addition to an ever-expanding ethnographic literature on life and death in Rio de Janeiro's famous shantytowns… This is a book that students of urbanization, informality, and violence in Brazil (and elsewhere) will value for its ethnographic richness and vigorous analysis." * Luso-Brazilian Review *
"This is a vibrant and engaging book that provides valuable insights on violence, social exclusion, and daily life on the urban margins in Brazil and elsewhere." -- Daniel M. Goldstein * author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City *
"Penglase’s is the...standard anthropological account, focused primarily on residents’ daily routines and infused with the same moral and ethical reflections about conducting ethnographic research in a context of violence."
* Latin American Research Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1 “To Live Here You Have to Know How to Live”
2 “Now You Know What It’s Like”: Ethnography in a State of (In)security
3 A Familiar Hillside and Dangerous Intimates
4 Tubarão and Seu Lázaro’s Dog: Drug-Traffickers and Abnormalization
5 “The Men Are in the Area”: Police, Race, and Place
6 Conclusion: “It was Here That Estella Was Shot”
Notes
References
Index
