Violence in modern Brazil

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Erika Robb Larkins, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in academia and mainstream press outlets. On the show, they examine violence and security issues in Brazilian cities.

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