scholarly journals “All is Normal”: Sports Mega Events, Favela Territory, and the Afterlives of Public Security Interventions in Rio de Janeiro

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn Oosterbaan
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Mega Events

scholarly journals The Pacification of the Favelas: Mega Events, Global Competitiveness, and the Neutralization of Marginality

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Saborio
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The City ◽  
Article Analyse ◽  
Do So

<p>Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host two major sporting events in the coming years: the 2014 FIFA World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Local authorities are promoting these mega events as an opportunity to increase the global competitiveness of the city. But in order to attract private capital from the global economy it is not enough for Rio to showcase the city as capable of organizing and implementing these events. Rather, the authorities must also demonstrate that what has been considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world can now become a safe place for business. To do so, what has been promoted as a new model of &lsquo;community policing&rsquo; the UPP (Pacifying Police Units) has been implemented since 2008 in 107 favelas. The majority of the favelas involved in the program are situated around the sites where these mega events will take place and around other wealthy areas of the city. This article analyses the relation between mega events, global competitiveness and the neutralization of local marginality.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rio de Janeiro se pr&eacute;pare &agrave; accueillir les plus grands &eacute;v&eacute;nement sportifs des prochaines ann&eacute;es: la coupe du monde de football en 2014 et les jeux olympiques en 2016. Les autorit&eacute;s locales valorisent ces &eacute;v&eacute;nements mondiaux comme autant d&rsquo;opportunit&eacute;s pour augmenter la comp&eacute;titivit&eacute; de la ville.&nbsp; Cependant, il n&rsquo;est pas suffisant pour attirer les capitaux priv&eacute;s de l&rsquo;&eacute;conomie mondiale que Rio soit valoris&eacute;e comme une ville capable d&rsquo;organiser et de g&eacute;rer ces &eacute;v&eacute;nements. Les autorit&eacute;s doivent aussi d&eacute;montrer que, ce qui auparavant &eacute;tait consid&eacute;r&eacute; comme une des plus dangereuses villes du monde, peut maintenant devenir un endroit s&ucirc;r pour les entreprises. Dans ce but, l&rsquo; UPP (Pacifying Police Units) a &eacute;t&eacute; mis en place en 2008 dans 107 favelas et est d&eacute;crit comme le nouveau mod&egrave;le de la police communitarian. La plupart des favelas int&eacute;gr&eacute;es dans le programme sont situ&eacute;es autour des lieux qui accueilleront les &eacute;v&eacute;nements et dans d&rsquo;autres endroits confortables de la ville. Pour cette raisons, cette article analyse les relations entre les &eacute;v&eacute;nements mondiaux, la comp&eacute;titivit&eacute; mondiale et la neutralisation de la marginalit&eacute; locale.</p>

scholarly journals Emergent Police States

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Salem ◽  
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Police Intervention ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism

The Pacifying Police Units, rolled out in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, were part of a police intervention conceived to end the logic of war that characterized the city’s public security policies. As such, it adopted “so” strategies of policing aimed at reducing violence and asserting state sovereignty in “pacified” favelas. Drawing on a postcolonial framework of analysis, we argue that these favelas can be understood as sites for experiments in imperial statecraft, where a new set of socio-moral relations that we call police moralism were inscribed onto spaces and bodies. Pacification, in this context, means the reassertion of Brazil’s historical racial order. In our conclusion, we read the moral order implemented in the favelas as a prefiguration of President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing authoritarianism on a national scale.

Mega-events, legacies and impacts: notes on 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabricio Leal de Oliveira ◽  
Carlos B. Vainer ◽  
Gilmar Mascarenhas ◽  
Glauco Bienenstein ◽  
Einar Braathen
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Mega Events

The Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro 2007: Consequences of a sport mega-event on a BRIC country

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Curi ◽  
Jorge Knijnik ◽  
Gilmar Mascarenhas
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Poor People ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Major Question ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Social Confrontation ◽  
The City

Sport mega-events were very important for Brazil in 2007. The 15th Pan American Games took place in Rio de Janeiro. It was the largest international tournament held in Brazil since the 1950 World Cup and the 1963 Pan American Games. The latter were held in São Paulo. In 2007, 5000 athletes and 60,000 tourists were expected from the 42 participating countries. Despite being a developing country, Brazil does have a sizable middle class, but in Rio de Janeiro there are also lots of favelas (slums), where millions of poor people live. Despite vast differences in wealth, power and social status, these socially and culturally distinct groups nonetheless utilize common public spaces. We see this social confrontation as a major question for the analyses of sport mega-events and we would like to demonstrate its consequences on a local level . This social tension was such that the Organizing Committee actually constructed a ‘big wall’ around the stadiums which turned them into islands of excellence to be shown on television, thus hiding the unsightly parts of the city, that is, poor neighborhoods and favelas. This wall could be seen as the BRIC-way of organizing mega-events.

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