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.

scholarly journals Reflexões sobre Políticas de Segurança Públicas no Brasil atual: consequências de uma Justiça de Transição falha? | Reflections on Public Security Policies in Brazil today: consequences of a failed Transitional Justice?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. e47999
Author(s):  
Emerson Francisco De Assis
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Public Security ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Official Data

Este trabalho visa analisar como as políticas de segurança públicas de “combate” ao crime e incentivo ao aumento de letalidade policial, atualmente adotadas a nível federal e em vários estados da federação foram incentivadas pelo legado de autoritarismo ainda presentes no Brasil, devido a uma Justiça de Transição falha. A pesquisa discute a hipótese de que o processo transicional brasileiro, quanto aos eixos do direito à verdade e memória e reformas institucionais permitiu que discursos e práticas autoritárias permanecessem nas políticas de segurança pública e acabassem reforçadas com governos mais à direita na presidência e em alguns estados. Para tanto, o artigo adota referencial teórico de Justiça de Transição em Direitos Humanos e Ciência Política, bem como, discute políticas de segurança públicas adotadas e/ou propostas pelos atuais governos Federal e do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, através de dados oficiais e informações da mídia nacional e internacional. Palavras-Chaves: Justiça de Transição. Reformas Institucionais. Segurança Pública. ABSTRACTthis paper aims to analyze how public security policies that “fights” crime and increasing police lethality have been intensified since the end of the decade of 2010 in Brazil at the federal level and in several states were encouraged by the legacy of authoritarianism still present in Brazil, due to a failed Transitional Justice. The research discusses the hypothesis that the Brazilian transitional process, regarding the axes of the truth and memory rights and institutional reforms, allowed authoritarian discourses and practices to remain in public security policies and end up reinforced with right-wing governments in the Brazilian presidency and in some states. To this end, the article adopts a theoretical approach to Transitional Justice in Human Rights and Political Science, as well as discusses public security policies adopted or proposed by the current Federal and Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo state governments, through official data and information from national and international media.Keywords: Transitional Justice. Institutional reforms. Public security. Recebido em 25 jan. 2020 | Aceito em 16 out. 2020.

Right-Wing Authoritarians Aren't Very Funny: RWA, Personality, and Creative Humor Production

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Silvia ◽  
Alexander P. Christensen ◽  
Katherine N. Cotter
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Latent Variable Models ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Rasch Models ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
Negative Effect

Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) has well-known links with humor appreciation, such as enjoying jokes that target deviant groups, but less is known about RWA and creative humor production—coming up with funny ideas oneself. A sample of 186 young adults completed a measure of RWA, the HEXACO-100, and 3 humor production tasks that involved writing funny cartoon captions, creating humorous definitions for quirky concepts, and completing joke stems with punchlines. The humor responses were scored by 8 raters and analyzed with many-facet Rasch models. Latent variable models found that RWA had a large, significant effect on humor production (β = -.47 [-.65, -.30], p < .001): responses created by people high in RWA were rated as much less funny. RWA’s negative effect on humor was smaller but still significant (β = -.25 [-.49, -.01], p = .044) after controlling for Openness to Experience (β = .39 [.20, .59], p < .001) and Conscientiousness (β = -.21 [-.41, -.02], p = .029). Taken together, the findings suggest that people high in RWA just aren’t very funny.

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