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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security Kindle Edition

by Enrique Desmond Arias (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely considers the social interactions and criminal networks that are at the heart of the challenges to democratic governance in urban Brazil.

Much of the violence is the result of highly organized, politically connected drug dealers feeding off of the global cocaine market. Rising crime prompts repressive police tactics, and corruption runs deep in state structures. The rich move to walled communities, and the poor are caught between the criminals and often corrupt officials. Arias argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption. The challenge, he suggests, is to build new social networks committed to controlling violence locally. Arias also offers comparative insights that apply this analysis to other cities in Brazil and throughout Latin America.
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    978-0807857748
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    The University of North Carolina Press
  4. Publication date
    November 13, 2009
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    English
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A remarkably-researched political ethnography of social violence in the hyper-violent drug-infested world of Brazilian favelas. . . . Intrepid and sophisticated.--Qualitative Sociology

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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro provides new insights based on original research on criminal and community networks in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. As cities in Brazil confront organized gangs of drug dealers who are better funded and better armed than the state--and protected by their connections--the urban poor are trapped in multiple layers of vulnerability, as Arias so richly demonstrates.--Janice E. Perlman, President of The Mega-Cities Project and author of the forthcoming Marginality from Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: 1969-2005

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZVEH0UI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press (November 13, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1815 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
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M. Holden
5.0 out of 5 stars This is by far the best book I've seen on this subject especially in organization ...
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This is by far the best book I've seen on this subject especially in organization and structure. The author is precise, clear, and direct with his arguments. I wish I had read this first because the organization is spectacular. If you need a resource on Favelas or Human networks this is the book to start and end with.
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Mark Mills
5.0 out of 5 stars Network collaboration principles revealed
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2008
Best book I've seen on the subject. Well researched and written. Includes personal tales of life in 3 favelas of Rio. I especially like the author's interest in the mechanisms permitting collaboration between local favela dwellers, rich citizens a few blocks away, drug traffickers, police and politicians.
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