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States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela
Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01023.x
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Penglase, B. (2009), States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 32: 47–63. doi: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01023.x
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- Issue published online: 29 JUN 2009
- Article first published online: 29 JUN 2009
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Keywords:
- [Brazil;
- favela;
- violence;
- drugs;
- insecurity]
This article analyzes how drug traffickers and police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, co-participate in the creation of a state of (in)security in the city's poor neighborhoods. I draw on ethnographic research to argue that drug traffickers dominate Rio's favelas (squatter neighborhoods) by producing everyday emergencies (or “ordered disorder”) and by deliberately manipulating secrecy.