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... This chapter critically maps policies to confront mass incarceration in the city of Rio de Janeiro, focusing on measures to prevent and combat torture. Prison systems in Rio de Janeiro are commonly described as spaces for human rights violations. The chapter explores the struggle between...

... This chapter explores the many ways that combat has transformed soldiers’ experiences of being in the world. In the case of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, transformations other than bodily injury are overwhelmingly described in terms of posttraumatic stress disorder. This chapter seeks...

...’ fight for greater inclusion in the Presbyterian Church informed the NGO’s holistic model of development. This model entails working toward multiple goals at once, including enhancing women’s self-esteem, combating environmental degradation, reinforcing religious values, combating individualism...

... Combating the informatics of domination demands other ways to tell stories and imagine worlds. “A Cyborg Manifesto” calls up such possibilities in its invocation of Octavia E. Butler. This essay turns to N. K. Jemison’s Broken Earth Trilogy to explore how Black, queer, and decolonial...

... of the conflict between factions on favela communities on the outside and how, in recent years, the authorities in Rio have opted to change the way they combat organized crime by occupying and securing urban territory through establishing Police Pacifying Units, or Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora. Comando...