ISBN:
0-520-22142-7
,
0-520-22143-5
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 487 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Keywords:
Brasilien Kriminalität
;
Segregation
;
Angst
;
Stadtforschung, ethnologische
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Zivilgesellschaft
;
São Paulo
Abstract:
Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in Sao Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on Sao Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, she identifies new patterns of segregation developing in these cities and suggests that these patterns are appearing in many metropolises
Description / Table of Contents:
PART 1. The Talk of Crime -- Talking of Crime and Ordering the World -- Crisis, Criminals, and the Spread of Evil -- PART 2. Violent Crime and the Failure of the Rule of Law -- The Increase in Violent Crime -- The Police: A Long History of Abuses -- Police Violence under Democracy -- PART 3. Urban Segregation, Fortified Enclaves, and Public Space -- Sao Paulo: Three Patterns of Spatial Segregation -- Fortified Enclaves: Building Up Walls and Creating a New Private Order -- The Implosion of Modern Public Life -- PART 4. Violence, Civil Rights, and the Body -- Violence, the Unbounded Body, and the Disregard for Rights in Brazilian Democracy.
Note:
Dissertation, University of California, 1992Literaturangaben Seite 425-453
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