Militarização do social como estratégia de integração: o caso da UPP do Santa Marta

Fleury, Sônia

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“…The UPPs leave the lines that divide the city unchanged in their content, even reinforcing the city's symbolic segregation (Fleury, 2012). They make the drug factions, the criminals and the spaces associated with them hypervisible, instead of tackling the sociability patterns and 'Othering' processes that take place between the city's spaces and their respective residents.…”

Section: The Militarization Of Favelas In the State Of Exceptionmentioning

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The securitization of citizenship in a ‘Segregated City’: a reflection on Rio’s Pacifying Police Units

Poets

2015

urbe, Rev. Bras. Gest. Urbana

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The Pacification Police Units -UPPs -implemented in Rio de Janeiro since 2008 have as one of their stated goals the promotion of the integration between the pacified favelas and the 'formal' city, aiming to overcome the view of Rio as a 'divided city'. Intending to problematize the reasoning behind this stated goal in order to question the UPPs' very foundations, this article examines the political and sociospatial background in which they were introduced. The implementation and operation of the UPPs is outlined in the context of the militarization of Rio's spaces, and especially of its urban poor regions, within an analysis of what assumptions about favelas and slum residents the UPPs imply. The UPPs are analyzed in dialogue with Giorgio Agamben's work as a sovereign act of 'drawing lines of distinction' between lives worth living and politically worthless 'Others'. It becomes clear that they are guilty of articulating and reinforcing what Teresa Caldeira has named the 'talk of crime', a Manicheistic discourse through which Brazilians articulate and cope with their daily encounter with violence. The disjunctive nature of Brazil's 'inclusively inegalitarian' democracy, as explored by James Holston, is emphasized. Brazil emerges as a post-dictatorial country, in which neoliberal reforms and democratic opening have simultaneously implied an increasingly authoritarian penal state that targets the urban marginalized as its 'internal enemies'. Keywords: UPPs. Public security policy. Brazilian democracy. Urban segregation. Resumo As Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora -UPPs -implementadas no Rio de

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The securitization of citizenship in a ‘Segregated City’: a reflection on Rio’s Pacifying Police Units

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2015

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“…These kinds of programmes represent an easy way to create a political consensus between the local population and, in Rio de Janeiro's case, international public opinion. Scholars (Barbosa 2012, Cano 2012, Fleury 2012, Machado da Silva 2010 have criticized the idea that the UPP is a community policing programme, arguing that it fails to meet the majority of criteria that characterise community policing philosophy, such as developing strong relationships with the community, ongoing consultation, dealing with concrete security issues and being proactive rather than reactive (Frühling 2012, 78). Principally, as Barbosa (2012) pointed out, there is no active engagement on behalf of the residents in maintaining the 'security and order' imposed by the arrival of the BOPE nor is the community actively involved in the subsequent UPP patrolling of the territory.…”

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Socialist Studies, Volume 9, Number 2 (Full Issue)

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“…Favelas in Rio de Janeiro are undergoing rapid changes, and new organisations and relationships are beginning to appear. This is largely as a result of the Rio de Janeiro government's policy of 'pacification' -a strategy to occupy the favelas formerly controlled by drug dealers, aimed at extending citizens' rights (and duties) in these areas (Fleury, 2012).…”

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“…In this changing environment, new organisations and forms of relationships, both inside the settlements and between them and the rest of the city, are appearing. In some places, such as Brazil, the starting point of this transformation has been the set of actions known as 'pacification' -the effects of which are still being evaluated (Fleury, 2012).The working hypothesis presented in this chapter is aligned with a planning approach that, although not new, has only been widely adopted in the last decade. 3 This hypothesis can be summarised in the following way:…”

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Collaborative Services in Informal Settlements: Social Innovation in a Pacified Favela in Rio de Janeiro

Cipolla¹,

Melo²,

Manzini

2015

New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

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IntroductionInformal settlements, such as favelas (slums), are complex social ecosystems, characterised by their lack of basic services and by their particular social ties. Favelas in Rio de Janeiro are undergoing rapid changes, and new organisations and relationships are beginning to appear. This is largely as a result of the Rio de Janeiro government's policy of 'pacification' -a strategy to occupy the favelas formerly controlled by drug dealers, aimed at extending citizens' rights (and duties) in these areas (Fleury, 2012).This chapter discusses these transformations, considering in particular if and how new services are emerging. This discussion is based on one significant case study -Light Recicla. Light Recicla, in Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro, is a service operated by the city's energy company that seeks to reduce the electricity bills of local residents by exchanging recyclable materials for energy credits, helping them to adjust to the new reality brought by pacification.Under the framework of the pacification strategy, commercial companies and favela residents are establishing new relationships. Light Recicla aims to define a new mode of collaboration between the energy company, Light, and its customers that addresses this new set of social relations. Light's initiative is considered in this chapter as an example that highlights specific issues related to social innovation, particularly in terms of new social relations. The focus here is on social innovation 'as new ideas (products, services and models) that simultaneously meet social needs and create new social relationships or collaborations' (Murray et al., 2010, p. 3). In the context of the emergence of new market-based relations within the pacification process, the Light Recicla service is examined as a type of service that meets the demands of informal settlements via new, hybrid and collaborative services. It is also argued that the effectiveness of these new types of services is based on specific socio-cultural qualities.In analysing informal settlements, this chapter draws on the work of the DESIS 1 Thematic Cluster, 2 'Formal, Informal, Collaborative (IFC)', which sets out a typology of actions based on two main issues:• Underserved communities. Informal settlements are complex social ecosystems, characterised by their lack of basic services (which has led to them being described as 'underserved' communities) and by the (relative) density of specific forms of social ties -from traditional ones, such as those of family, clan and village, to new ones that have emerged in the particular context of informal settlements, including those imposed by criminal gangs.• Informal settlements in transformation. Driven by different factors, several informal settlements have recently entered a phase of rapid change (Echeverri and Orsini, 2011). In this changing environment, new organisations and forms of relationships, both inside the settlements and between them and the rest of the city, are appearing. In some places, such as Brazil, the starting poi...

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Militarização do social como estratégia de integração: o caso da UPP do Santa Marta

Cited by 45 publications

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The securitization of citizenship in a ‘Segregated City’: a reflection on Rio’s Pacifying Police Units

The securitization of citizenship in a ‘Segregated City’: a reflection on Rio’s Pacifying Police Units

Socialist Studies, Volume 9, Number 2 (Full Issue)

Collaborative Services in Informal Settlements: Social Innovation in a Pacified Favela in Rio de Janeiro

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