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- Title
Pac'Stão versus the City of Police: Contentious Activism Facing Megaprojects, Authoritarianism, and Violence.
- Authors
Braathen, Einar
- Abstract
This article analyzes community activism and state interventionism within a context of racialized and gendered violence that is both direct/physical and structural. It presents a case study of Manguinhos, a cluster of favelas in Rio de Janeiro experiencing the federal Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), which provided political opportunities for community contentions. A main finding is that an oligarchic-patrimonial system suppressed the participatory-democratic aspirations of the federal government and local activists alike. Nevertheless, new rounds of activism keep surging against a prevailing military-repressive logic. Observations and interviews from fieldwork have been supplemented with written sources—relevant public documents, media sources, and research publications.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); PATRIMONIALISM (Political science); COMMUNITY activists; ACTIVISM; FAVELAS; URBAN violence; DEVELOPMENTALISM (Economics)
- Publication
Conflict & Society, 2020, Vol 6, Issue 1, p145
- ISSN
2164-4543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/arcs.2020.060109