Ben Penglase
Loyola University Chicago
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Luso-Brazilian Review | 2008
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
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
Ben Penglase
Luso-Brazilian Review | 2008
Ben Penglase
Journal of Latin American Anthropology | 2010
Ben Penglase
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review | 2009
Ben Penglase; Stephanie C. Kane; Philip C. Parnell
Luso-Brazilian Review | 2017
Ben Penglase
Luso-Brazilian Review | 2017
Ben Penglase
Archive | 2015
Ben Penglase; Rolker Gracie; Amy Chazkel
Journal of Latin American Anthropology | 2012
Ben Penglase