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Luso-Brazilian Review | 2008

The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship: The Comando Vermelho and the Birth of "Narco-culture" in Rio de Janeiro

Ben Penglase

Este artigo apresenta um análise do surgimento e da evolução do Comando Vermelho, uma organização de tráfico de drogas nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro. Baseando-se em pesquisa etnográfica numa favela do Rio, o artigo mostra o impacto que o crescimento do tráfico de drogas teve sobre a vida dos moradores das favelas do Rio, produzindo novos padrões sociais, novos símbolos de identidade e novas formas de poder. O artigo analisa como o Comando Vermelho aproveitou-se das contradições sociais existentes enquanto também utilizou o seu conhecimento da cultura dos moradores para criar uma “narco-cultura” que continua a ter um impacto profundo na vida cotidiana dos moradores das favelas do Rio.


Crime, Media, Culture | 2007

Barbarians on the beach: Media narratives of violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ben Penglase

This article examines Brazilian media reports on two incidents in Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s, arguing that reports on these events were turning points in the emergence of a discourse of crime that has come to shape how residents of Rio de Janeiro understand and experience violence. Newspaper and magazine articles on a 1992 beachside mugging incident and the Brazilian armys 1994 occupation of several of Rios poor neighbourhoods are examined as cultural texts through which violence becomes culturally imaginable and new discourses of social difference emerge. The article shows how reports on crime came to constitute a neo-racist discourse centred on images of infection and the creation of social stigmata according to spatial, and not primarily racial, criteria. The key shift in this discourse of crime is from a hegemonic national narrative that celebrated mixing and transgression to one where social and urban boundaries are increasingly impermeable, and transgression is seen as dangerous and threatening.


PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review | 2009

States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela

Ben Penglase


Luso-Brazilian Review | 2008

Lúcia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman (review)

Ben Penglase


Journal of Latin American Anthropology | 2010

The Owner of the Hill: Masculinity and Drug‐trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ben Penglase


PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review | 2009

INTERVIEW: The “New Anthropology of Crime”

Ben Penglase; Stephanie C. Kane; Philip C. Parnell


Luso-Brazilian Review | 2017

McCann, Bryan . Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro . Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2014. xi + 249 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Ben Penglase


Luso-Brazilian Review | 2017

Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro by Bryan McCann (review)

Ben Penglase


Archive | 2015

An Oral History of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Ben Penglase; Rolker Gracie; Amy Chazkel


Journal of Latin American Anthropology | 2012

Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez. Howard Campbell, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 310 pp.

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