This research aimed to understand the discourses about the Ronda Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar (ROTA), focusing on the speech of Police officers and politicians over control the "organized crime." Therefore, we analyzed ...

This research sought to understand how the agents of body modification practices understand the attempts to criminalize them. Starting from the observation that bodies pass through processes of normalization both by ...

This dissertation aimed to explore how men between the ages of 18 and 27 shared and told each other online about their masculinities in a Facebook group, observing the experience reports and the qualifications of gender, ...

This thesis deals with the urban conflict in contemporary Brazil, which in recent decades has had violence as the core of its figuration. Specifically, it reflects on the contours assumed by state management in the ...

Contemporary Brazilian cinema, particularly the one committed to revisiting the urban periphery, ends up refreshing some aspects of relation between the film and the social context, aesthetics and politics, theme and form, ...

The purpose of this text is to explore the emergence of gangs and the dynamics of their violence in the peripheries of Petrópolis. Through an ethnography that lasted about three years of field work, I describe in-depth the ...

This ressearch intents to analyse, based on ethnographic study made in Praça Franklin Roosevelt, a public square in the neighborhood of Consolação (Central region of São Paulo), interfaces between determined mechanisms of ...

The present work aims to outline the issue of risk, victimization and the suffering of the military police as factors that more than inherent to the profession are reinforced by the manner the public security in Brazil is ...

This work copes with different processes of urban space production (“down” and “up”) and their relations to the land use, spatial planning, and to the social arrangement found in peripheral and poor areas – resulting of ...

This thesis analyzes the construction of the city from a study on the relationships between people living on the streets and their religious, volunteers and state interlocutors. Urban construction is thought from a situational ...