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Militias going rogue: Social dilemmas and coercive brokerage in Rio de Janeiro's urban frontier

Pope, Nicholas

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Nicholas Pope



Abstract

Examining Rio de Janeiro's milícias (‘militias’) through a ‘coercive brokerage’ concept can reveal how they are central to how states and markets function. By tracing their emergence through moments of political and economic rupture, this article reveals how milícias responded to the social dilemmas of marginalised populations. Drawing from archival documentation, interviews, and ethnographic fieldnotes, this article argues that by brokering solutions to collective action problems and attempting to level-up inequalities, milícias gained access to the political system and were able to shaped the urban political economy. However, their coercive force also stimulated fresh contradictions, leading to a new set of structural, symbolic, and physical violences.

Citation

Pope, N. (2023). Militias going rogue: Social dilemmas and coercive brokerage in Rio de Janeiro's urban frontier. Journal of International Development, 35(3), 478-490. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3636

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 17, 2022
Online Publication Date Feb 9, 2022
Publication Date Apr 1, 2023
Deposit Date Apr 4, 2022
Publicly Available Date Apr 4, 2022
Journal Journal of International Development
Print ISSN 0954-1748
Electronic ISSN 1099-1328
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 35
Issue 3
Pages 478-490
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3636
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.3636

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