TY - BOOK
T1 - Inside criminalized governance
T2 - how and why gangs rule the streets of Rio de Janeiro
AU - Barnes, Nicholas
N1 - Funding: This project received generous financial assistance of several research institutes and organizations over the years. The Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Center (LACIS) at University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the guidance of Alberto Vargas, offered support from the very beginning of the project. Two summer Foreign Language Area Studies grants completed at Middlebury’s Portuguese School and the University of Florida in Rio allowed the author to learn Portuguese at an accelerated rate while several pre-dissertation grants from LACIS and the Political Science Department also provided funds for two exploratory research trips. The support of the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education through the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, and the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) through the International Dissertation Research Fellowship were essential to conducting the nearly three years of fieldwork that this project required. A special thanks goes to the SSRC’s Drugs, Security, and Democracy in Latin America Fellowship program that also provided funding for fieldwork and organized two fascinating workshops during this fieldwork. During the write-up stage, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and a Mellon Summer Dissertation Fellowship gave the author the financial resources to focus on writing while UW– Madison’s International Institute and a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Foundation provided funds for two follow-up research visits.
PY - 2025/2/6
Y1 - 2025/2/6
N2 - For over four decades, drug-trafficking gangs have monopolized violence and engaged in various forms of governance across hundreds of informal neighborhoods known as favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, over 200 interviews with gang members and residents, 400 archival documents, and 20,000 anonymous hotline denunciations of gang members, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the causes and consequences of these governance arrangements. The book documents the variation in gang–resident relationships – from responsive ones in which gangs provide a reliable form of order and stimulate the local economy to coercive and unresponsive relations in which gangs offer residents few benefits – and then identifies the factors that account for this variation. The result is an unprecedented ethnographic study that provides readers a unique, in-depth insight into the evolution of Rio de Janeiro’s drug-trafficking gangs, from their emergence in the 1970s to the present day.
AB - For over four decades, drug-trafficking gangs have monopolized violence and engaged in various forms of governance across hundreds of informal neighborhoods known as favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, over 200 interviews with gang members and residents, 400 archival documents, and 20,000 anonymous hotline denunciations of gang members, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the causes and consequences of these governance arrangements. The book documents the variation in gang–resident relationships – from responsive ones in which gangs provide a reliable form of order and stimulate the local economy to coercive and unresponsive relations in which gangs offer residents few benefits – and then identifies the factors that account for this variation. The result is an unprecedented ethnographic study that provides readers a unique, in-depth insight into the evolution of Rio de Janeiro’s drug-trafficking gangs, from their emergence in the 1970s to the present day.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/latin-american-government-politics-and-policy/inside-criminalized-governance-how-and-why-gangs-rule-streets-rio-de-janeiro?format=HB
U2 - 10.1017/9781009072410
DO - 10.1017/9781009072410
M3 - Book
SN - 9781316513040
SN - 9781009069946
T3 - Cambridge studies in comparative politics
BT - Inside criminalized governance
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -
