...Alexandre F. Mendes This article analyzes the strategies of “integrating” the favelas into the city in Rio de Janeiro through state enforcement and an expansion of financial measures. In a new arrangement of the public-private dichotomy, Pacifying Police Units (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora; UPPs...

...Helena Silvestre; Verónica Gago; Marta Malo; Liz Mason-Deese This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory...

...Leticia Veloso This essay is based on extensive fieldwork with marginalized children and other working children in Rio de Janeiro, conducted in two favelas and on the streets of four different neighborhoods. Specifically, my research focused on how particular children try to earn a living...

... of Biopolitics . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Franco Jean . 2013 . Cruel Modernity . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Franco Marielle . 2018 . “ After the Take-Over: Mobilizing the Political Creativity of Brazil’s Favelas .” New Left Review , no. 110 : 135 – 40 . Gentile...

... Sinii divan. Helena Silvestre is an Afro-Indigenous feminist, favela resident, housing activist, editor of the magazine Amazonas, and member of the feminist school Abya Yala. Kaitlyn Tucker Sorenson is a postdoctoral humanities teaching fellow in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...

... fully incorporated within the city, these settlements, frequently referred to as “favelas” by youth who live within them, continue to posit atmospheres of contention, militancy, and independence—a source of anxiety for the ruling regime. In the valleys between the hills and toward the coastal planes...

... of Lulism. Before June, the terrain for this change of perspective took the form of a multiplication of moments of resistance: the indigenous against dams, the poor against the clearing of the favelas, the youth of the peripheries against the police “pacification” of culture, and favela...

... and the Integration of the Favela into the City in Rio de Janeiro  866 Mendes, Pedro B., The Summer of the Multitude  874 Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Neilson, The Materiality of Communism: Politics beyond Representation and the State  777 McAlister, Melani, US Evangelicals and the Politics...

...: the struggle both against the violent “pacification” of the favelas, promoted by Rio de Janeiro’s characteristic military and medi- atic biopower, and in the face of exploitation from the cognitive capitalism that biopower proposes and operates (cf. Cocco and IHU Online 2011). As if this were...

... money, property, taxes, and marriage. In 1897, it was destroyed by the military forces of the Brazil- ian government. The echoes of Canudos are clearly discernible in today’s favelas in Latin American megalopolises: Are they, in some sense, not the first ‘‘liberated territories the cells of futural...

...; these are the villas, what in Brazil they call favelas. These are places where there is no service whatsoever provided by the state. The state is there only as a military presence. At every street corner you see young men with ri¥es. You have soldiers there, but you don t have anyone picking up the garbage. Everything...

... that was otherwise unimaginable for a young black girl in a Carioca favela: one of female wealth, glamour, and independence. However, when she later announced that she wanted to be a prostitute, her father beat her. There is no question that, despite its potentially subversive role, prosti­ tution also shores up...

... in the favelas, Žghting against racist, classist, predatory urban- ization, as Helena Silvestre recounts in this dossier in reference to the experi- ence in Brazil. It intervenes in highly complex conjunctures (the strike in Ecua- dor and the state terrorism of the Chilean government, debates about extractivism...

... the conservative journalistic curtain and was transmitted to thousands of other protesters like a virus. As protesters filled the streets, they lost their fear of state repression, inciting a broad resistance, from favela residents to social media activists, from public school students to uni- versity...

...-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (New York, 1967), p. 392. 6 See Kathleen Gough, World Revolution and the Science of Man, in The Dissenting Academy, ed, Theodore Roszak (New York, 1967). Knowing the Poor IOS favelas outside Sao Paulo, and in the slums of the American metrop­ olis has nothing to offer...

.... Like the Red Command before it, the PCC extended its activities far beyond the original aims, osten- sibly about social assistance, charitable support, and the fight against oppres- sion, and into organized crime involving bank robberies and the supply and distribution of drugs in the favelas...

.... For the uncommon native intellectual has only a distant familiarity with the terror found in the field or favela native, the everyday “nigger” to use Fanon’s term. Henceforward thus heralds the emergent consciousness of a new political being, one famil- iar with the simple elegance of revolutionary...

... on the indigenous and the environment, militarization of the favelas and mass incarceration, the growth of the pri- mary sector at the expense of the rest of the economy or paid attention to the groups a£ected by them, that defense would also take on a mostly ethical form. PT was worth supporting, the argument went...

... has declared himself com- mitted to redressing the massive economic and structural inequities, based in significant measure on race, that separate the (predominantly black) poor from the (mainly Creole) elite; it is symbolically, if not quite literally, from the favelas that “Lula’s” politics...

..., August 24, 2007. Particularly violent “operations” in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo often result in more than a hundred people dead in a few days, to the joy of an increasingly fascist-like middle class that—through its main media institution, the magazine Veja (veja...