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Policing Rio de Janeiro - Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City (Hardcover)
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Policing Rio de Janeiro - Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City (Hardcover)
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When in 1808 members of the Portuguese royal entourage arrived in
Rio de Janeiro, the capital of a colony most had previously known
only through administrative reports and balance sheets, they
encountered a hostile and dangerous population that included a
large number of African slaves. One of the institutions they
brought from Lisbon was the General Intendancy of Police, which was
the foundation on which the city's police institutions were built.
The government met the challenge of bringing the inhabitants of Rio
de Janeiro under control with a repressive apparatus that grew
along with the problem it was created to solve. Policing Rio de
Janeiro is a history of one of the fundamental institutions of the
modern world through which the power of the state intrudes on
public space to control and direct behavior. It is also a study of
the way people resisted the repressive arm of the state, including
heretofore unreported cases of slave rebellion as well as forms of
everyday resistance. The author shows how the historical
development of the police of Rio de Janeiro, through a dialectic of
repression and resistance, was part of a more general transition
from the traditional application of control through private
hierarchies to the modern exercise of power through public
institutions. Using the rich records - which include internal
correspondence and official reports - of the police system and its
civilian counterparts the judicial and jail systems, the author
explores the point at which repression and resistance collided, on
the squares, streets, and back alleys of Brazil's capital city. The
resulting disturbances served as a catalyst for the formation of
institutions and procedures that provided a veneer of modernity
over traditional attitudes and relationships, protecting and
strengthening them. In a conceptual context that includes the ideas
of Foucault, Weber, and Gramsci, the author goes beyond
institutional history to examine the changing social conditions of
Rio de Janeiro and the exercise of power by its elites.
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