Military Intervention and the War Against the Poor in the City of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the federal intervention in the field of public security in Rio de Janeiro in 2018 from a historical reconstruction of the militarized security projects within the war metaphor. It is argued that the federal intervention operates in continuity with the repressive paradigm that initially sought to pacify areas unintegrated to the order constituted for the functioning of the neoliberal corporate city. However, it opens a new chapter in the populist management of public security in Rio, deepening and updating the war against the poor slum dwellers by spreading fear.

Keywords

• rio de janeiro, segurança pública, controle penal, violência urbana, neoliberalismo