City of Walls : Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo / Teresa P. R. Caldeira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caldeira, Teresa P. R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

São Paulo (Brazil)--Social conditions.

São Paulo (Brazil).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (605 p.) : 1 frontispiece, 19 figs, 4 maps, 8 tables

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in São Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on São Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, she identifies new patterns of segregation developing in these cities and suggests that these patterns are appearing in many metropolises.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Anthropology with an Accent

PART 1. The Talk of Crime

1. Talking of Crime and Ordering the World

2. Crisis, Criminals, and the Spread of Evil

PART 2. Violent Crime and the Failure of the Rule of Law

3. The Increase in Violent Crime

4. The Police: A Long History of Abuses

5. Police Violence under Democracy

PART 3. Urban Segregation, Fortified Enclaves/and Public Space

6. Sao Paulo: Three Patterns of Spatial Segregation

7. Fortified Enclaves: Building Up Walls and Creating a New Private Order

8. The Implosion of Modern Public Life

PART 4. Violence, Civil Rights, and the Body

CHAPTER 9. Violence, the Unbounded Body, and the Disregard for Rights in Brazilian Democracy

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

0-520-34159-7

OCLC:

1224278658