Living With Insecurity In A Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence And Daily Life

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela examines how inequality, racism, drug trafficking, police brutality, and gang activities affect the daily lives of the people of Caxambu. Ben Penglase argues that urban violence and a larger context of inequality create a social world that is deeply contradictory and ambivalent.

• | Author: Ben Penglase
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0813565448
• | ISBN-13: 9780813565446