Rethinking Peace in Urban Violence

Beschreibung

"In a rapidly urbanising world, cities are often sites of tension, violence and tough state responses. Ingri Bøe Buer’s excellent book unpacks the complexities of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro and the agency residents use to forge versions of peace at the everyday level. Despite tough conditions, people do more than survive: they resist, innovate and build. Highly recommended."

—Roger Mac Ginty, Professor, Durham University, UK

“Rethinking Peace is a must-read for scholars and practitioners of peace in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. It levels an incisive critique of the standard absent state and criminal governance frameworks while offering novel conceptual and empirical insights regarding the various peace formation strategies that residents of Rio’s favelas employ. I highly recommend it.”

—Nicholas Barnes, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews, UK

This book asks what peace means when the state wages war against its own citizens in the name of security in the war on drugs. Set in Rio de Janeiro, a deeply unequal city where life chances are shaped by race, class, gender and address, it questions whose peace is protected, and at whose expense. Tracing the historical racialisation, marginalisation and criminalisation of the favelas, the book shows how this has resulted in complex forms of hybrid governance involving criminal groups, police and the state. It conceptualizes urban violence in Rio as a form of performative, necropolitical state war-making, where a discourse of security sustains deadly and inefficient operations in the favelas. In this violent context, the book explores favela peace formation as a grassroots alternative, in which residents construct new forms of nonviolent politics and envision more just and peaceful futures, offering important insights for rethinking and decolonizing peace. 

Ingri Bøe Buer is an MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellow at Noragric, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and IRI, PUC-Rio. She holds an MA (2017) and PhD (2022) in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response from the University of Manchester, with eight months fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro in 2019–2020.

This book asks what peace means when the state wages war against its own citizens in the name of security in the war on drugs. Set in Rio de Janeiro, a deeply unequal city where life chances are shaped by race, class, gender and neighbourhood, it questions whose peace is protected, and at whose expense. Tracing the historical racialisation, marginalisation and criminalisation of the favelas, the book shows how this has resulted in complex forms of hybrid governance involving criminal groups, police and the state. It conceptualizes urban violence in Rio as a form of performative, necropolitical state war-making, where a discourse of security sustains deadly and inefficient operations in the favelas. In this violent context, the book explores favela peace formation as a grassroots alternative, in which residents construct new forms of nonviolent politics and envision more just and peaceful futures, offering important insights for rethinking and decolonizing peace. 

Autor*in

Ingri Bøe Buer

Themen in »Rethinking Peace in Urban Violence«

peacebuilding favela peacebuilding Rio de Janeiro urban violence pacification projects police operations favelas the war on drugs new wars peace and security peace and conflict gang violence state violence racism critical perspective

Stimmen zu »Rethinking Peace in Urban Violence«

Details

Link teilen