Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone
(2020)
Thesis
Pope, N. Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London
This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Zone ‘margins’ of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It considers the rise of milícias as they coincide with urbanisation, economic liberalisation, democratis... Read More about Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone.