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- Title
Pacification & Mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: Urbanization, Public Security & Accumulation by Dispossession.
- Authors
Rekow, Lea
- Abstract
This paper outlines how Brazil's latest public security initiative--its highly controversial Police Pacification Campaign (UPP)--is an integral component of a neoliberal political framework that is enacting rapid urbanization projects in and around strategically located favelas (informal settlements or slums) of Rio de Janeiro. Specifically, it evaluates what kinds of economic development initiatives are moving forward, how they are facilitated by the UPP, how they connect to the city's mega-events, and who is profiting from them. The article also examines how the pacification has affected residents in three favelas over a seven-year period from the inauguration of the UPP in 2008 through to mid-2015.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); BRAZIL; URBANIZATION; EVICTION; SOCIAL security; RIO de Janeiro (Brazil). Unidade de Policia Pacificadora
- Publication
Journal of Human Security (Librello Publishing House), 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
1835-3800
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12924/johs2016.12010004