From Necropolis to Blackpolis: Necropolitical Governance and Black Spatial Praxis in São Paulo, Brazil
Based on ethnographic work on police-linked death squads and with black women's organizations, this article analyzes current urban governance policies and the spatial politics of resistance embraced by communities under siege in Brazil. Space matters not only in terms of defining one's acc...
- Autores:
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Alves, Jaime Amparo
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2014
- Institución:
- Universidad ICESI
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio ICESI
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/78392
- Acceso en línea:
- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893865468&partnerID=tZOtx3y1
http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12055
- Palabra clave:
- Ciencias sociales
Social sciences
Negritudes
Blackness
Necrópolis
Gobernabilidad necropolítica
Necropolitical governance
Ciencia política
Political science
Sao Paulo (Brasil)
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | Based on ethnographic work on police-linked death squads and with black women's organizations, this article analyzes current urban governance policies and the spatial politics of resistance embraced by communities under siege in Brazil. Space matters not only in terms of defining one's access to the polis, but also as a deadly tool through which police killings, economic marginalization, and mass incarceration produce the very geographies (here referred to as "the black necropolis") that the state aims to counteract in its war against the black urban poor. Yet, within the context of necropolitical governance, blackness appears as a spatially grounded praxis that enables victims of state terror to reclaim their placeless location as a political resource for redefining themselves and the polis. © 2013 Antipode Foundation Ltd. |
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