Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781032187174 / Miękka / 2023 / 190 str.

UK) Villenave Sabrina (The University of Manchester

Opis

The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1 – Between a revealed past and a treacherous present  Chapter 2 – Between nation-building and modernity  Chapter 3 – The police apparatus: Between highly noticeable killings and unnoticed disappearances  Chapter 4 – Black Bodies the meat of lowest value in the market  Chapter 5 – Hidden in plain sight: liminal spatiality in Brazil  Concluding thoughts

O autorze

Sabrina Villenave is affiliated at the University of Manchester, at the Department of Politics. Her research interest focuses on Critical Security Studies and its late critique on race and racialization. She is interested in postcolonial and decolonial critiques of International Relations, and in the legacies of African Slave Trade organized by the Portuguese Empire. Currently she is working with the themes of "War on Drugs" in Brazil as a legitimizer of police violence against favela dwellers, under the frame of exceptionality, security apparatus and the depoliticization of disappearances after the dictatorship in the country under the theoretical frame of necropolitics.