Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Tomas Salem is a PhD-fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen in Norway. He carried out fieldwork with the Pacifying Police Units of Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police in 2015 and has an interdisciplinary background from the fields of Public Security and Gender Studies. His research interests span from critical perspectives on masculinity to post-colonial theory, right-wing authoritarianism, state formation and state violence. This is his first book. It is based on his award-winning thesis Taming the War-Machine: Police, Pacification, and Power in Rio de Janeiro and ten years of research on Brazilian policing.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Favela/Asphalt.- Chapter 2: Policing in Rio de Janeiro.- Chapter 3: Pacification and Militarization.- Chapter 4: War Zones.- Chapter 5: Violent Masculinities.- Chapter 6: Training Warriors.- Chapter 7: The World of Warfare.- Chapter 8: Fascism in Brazil.