Tipo de material
Tese Doutorado
Autor Principal
Cavalcanti Rocha dos Santos, Mariana
Orientador
Lomnitz, Claudio, Carneiro de Cunha, Manuela
Local da Publicação
Ann Arbor
Instituição
The University of Chicago
Palavras chave
Favelas
Rio do Janeiro
Space
Housing
Violence
Resumo
This dissertation examines an ongoing political re-articulation between poverty, (il)legality, and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro. It seeks to unpack the paradoxical ways in which the favelas' (shantytowns) social reproduction hinges simultaneously on their progressive commoditization, legalization and incorporation into the fabric of the so-called 'formal' city and on their constitution as residual 'territories' of global flows of drugs and weapons by a drug trade that thrives on reinforcing their spatial and social boundaries. In the past two decades, favela residents have witnessed a radical transformation in their housing conditions: these former 'squatters' who used to live in stucco shacks under constant threat of removal are now the owners of multiple-story masonry homes that have harbored considerable valuations in a bourgeoning, albeit informal, real estate market. They are, in short, the residents of 'consolidated favelas'. And yet favela consolidation has done little to ensure residents' rights to the city: their daily lives unfold in the context of an extremely violent political economy, a joint oeuvre of the favelas' territorialization by drug factions organized on a city-wide level and of police repression. Constant shootouts, brutal police incursions, a law of silence and of a proxy judiciary system by the drug trade pervade quotidian life, engendering an atmosphere of' uncertainty and routines of risk avoidance, as well as efforts to bunker up and secure their houses from external threats. House construction thus offers an hermeneutic onto the phenomenological experience of favela consolidation from the standpoint of its embeddedness in the trajectory of situated subjects: 'shacks', 'houses' and 'fortresses' correspond to different ways of being in the world, and of inhabiting a favela. Based on eighteen months of field research in a 'consolidated' favela, I suggest that favela territorialization and commoditization are, in fact, mutually constitutive. I argue that these dynamics produce a paradoxical situation that traps favela residents in a double bind: the conditions for their political visibility and leverage rest on their constitution as a threat to the city; and yet it is this very perception that has brought them unprecedented political recognition and material improvements.
Referência Temporal
Século XXI
Localização Eletrônica
https://www.proquest.com/dis%20sertations-theses/shacks-houses-fortresses-ethnography-favela/docview/61772513/se-2?accountid=11091