Between 2001 and 2011, the significant reduction in the homicide rate in São Paulo has sparked controversy in public debate and social sciences. What causalities certainly multiple, and analytic assumptions that explain ...

This work aims to understand the perceptions of social mobility of two generations from popular class families. The participants of the research were domestic workers who migrated between the late 1960s and the mid-1990s ...

Homicides in Brazil have become a major social problem in recent decades. Young black males are the main victims. This paper presents a genealogy of the way black young people have brought the theme of murder and violence ...

This dissertation discusses the politics made by the popular classes through peripheral cultural collectives. Specifically, the objective is to discuss what shapes and drives this political form of peripheral cultural ...

This thesis reflects on the lives of people who experience evictions and forced displacements in the outskirts of São Paulo, mobilizing and articulating three analytical categories: house, risk, and time. From an ethnographic ...

This research aimed to understand how the institutions and state operators’ crime control are being affected by the emergence of new forms of organization of the "world of crime." It wondered how the institutions and ...

The research presented here is the result of a case study on the Quilombola Rural Community de Velame, located 54 km away from the city of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia state, highlighting the analysis of public policies ...

This dissertation aims to analyze the aesthetic and political displacements of the hip-hop movement in Brazil through the trajectory of Casa do Hip-Hop de Piracicaba. The empirical field is a prism to approach the processes ...

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 ...

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 ...