Stephan Lanz
Ruling favelas. The relationship between state, drug trafficking and favelas in Rio de Janeiro
Pages 191 – 205

Through the deployment of Michel Foucault´s concept of governmentality, this paper sets out to discuss the question of how irregular settlements (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro are governed by complex and intertwined relationships of different actors. It reveals that the current oppressive regime is based on techniques of power derived from colonialism, the military regime and a bourgeois conception of the city. Simultaneously, it is based on traditional technologies of the self that emerged out of the historical need of favela residents to govern themselves.


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