State within a State: Gang-Enforced Lockdowns in Rio’s Favelas amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Sociopolitical Implications in Brazil

Jung, Hoyoon

doi:10.18848/2327-0055/cgp/v19i02/9-18

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“…Such requirements could respond to a certain concern about the inefficacy of such measures in territories where knowledge of the terrain and the real control of the space by the political power are lower. Hence the need to integrate local elites into the control of space, even if it means relying on drug gangs in Brazilian favelas (Jung 2021) or neighbourhood committees in Wuhan:…”

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Lockdown, social control of space and religious freedom

Belmonte

2023

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Political thought, from Aristotle to Lefebvre, has placed importance on the control of space as an activity of political power. Extraordinary measures taken by global policy-makers since the early 2020s as part of efforts to to combat the pandemic have included mass lock-downs, closed borders, social distancing and other forms of spatial control. Importantly, spaces dedicated to religious worship (churches, etc.) were subjected to extraordinary regulation. In the exercise of this new control of space, social control has played an important role (obligation to declare one’s health condition, incitement to denounce offenders...) fostered by the authorities through various means of new social education, generating new social habits in terms of the management of space. Religious freedom and the autonomy of the Church thus faced new challenges as a result of the extraordinary control of religious space by civil power and the pressure of social control. The new forms of control incorporated into our habits deserve to be critically reviewed in our search for true spaces of freedom that are not sacrificed in the name of supposed science.

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Section: Lockdowns Restricted Mobility and Curfewsmentioning

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Lockdown, social control of space and religious freedom

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2023

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Spaces of quiet resistance: navigating health and socio-spatial challenges in informal settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic

Collado

2024

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In informal settlements in the global South, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated territorial stigma, health risks and socioeconomic gaps. In the absence of adequate state support, grassroots initiatives emerged to cope with multifaceted impacts. Drawing on a scoping review of the literature on informal settlements vis-à-vis COVID-19, this article discusses the documented built environment risk determinants and the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic in these areas. Moreover, the article registers informal settlements during the pandemic as ‘spaces of quiet resistance’, a conceptualisation that captures and foregrounds the nonconfrontational, pragmatic and evasive strategies by non-state agents operating within these communities to cope with the uneven consequences of the health emergency. By analysing the dimensions of risks, impacts and resistance, this study sheds light on the nuanced socio-spatial governance mechanisms that unfold in these communities during crises, which become critical repositories for transformative urban planning.

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State within a State: Gang-Enforced Lockdowns in Rio’s Favelas amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Sociopolitical Implications in Brazil

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Lockdown, social control of space and religious freedom

Lockdown, social control of space and religious freedom

Spaces of quiet resistance: navigating health and socio-spatial challenges in informal settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic

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