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SUMMARY:Book Presentation: Inside Criminalized Governance. How and Why Gan
 gs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro - Nicholas Barnes (University of St 
 Andrews)
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CONTACT:Paola A. Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Description: For over four decades\, drug trafficking gangs ha
 ve monopolized violence and engaged in various forms of governance across 
 hundreds of informal neighborhoods known\nas favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Dr
 awing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork\, over 200 interviews with 
 gang members and residents\, 400 archival documents\, and 20\,000 anonymou
 s hotline denunciations of gang members\, this book provides a comprehensi
 ve examination of the causes and consequences of these governance arrangem
 ents. The book documents the variation in gang-resident relationships – 
 from responsive relations in which gangs provide a reliable form of order 
 and stimulate the local economy\, to coercive and unresponsive relations i
 n which gangs offers residents few benefits – then identifies the factor
 s that account for this variation. The result is an unprecedented ethnogra
 phic study that provides readers a unique\, in-depth insight into the evol
 ution of Rio de Janeiro's drug trafficking gangs from their emergence in t
 he 1970s to the present day.\n\nCommentator: Graham Denyer Willis (Univers
 ity of Cambridge)
LOCATION:SG1 Ground Floor\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, CB3 9D
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