Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil: The Politics of Life and Death

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Sabrina Villenave (The University of Manchester, UK)

Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil

The Politics of Life and Death

Sabrina Villenave (The University of Manchester, UK)

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English

Routledge
31 December 2021

Ethnic studies; Politics & government; Political ideologies; Anarchism; Political structures: democracy

Series: Interventions

"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.

Focused empirically on contemporary (1985-2015) police killings and disappearances in favelas, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the books argues that the invisibility of this phenomenon is the product of a colonial mindset – one that has persisted throughout Brazil’s experience of both dictatorship and re-democratisation and is traceable to the legacies of the Portuguese empire and the plantation system implemented. Analysing the development of the police as a colonial mechanism of social control, Villenave shows how the ""war on drugs"" reproduces this same colonial logic and renders some, overwhelmingly black, lives disposable and thus vulnerable to unchecked police brutality and death.

It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics and also contributes to critical security studies, postcolonial and de-colonial thought, global politics, the politics of Latin America and political geography."

By: Sabrina Villenave (The University of Manchester UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9780367469832
ISBN 10: 0367469839
Series: Interventions
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 31 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

"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."