Between Shocks and Finance: Pacification and the Integration of the Favela into the City in Rio de Janeiro.

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    • Subject Terms:
      RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); BRAZIL
    • Subject Terms:
      RIO de Janeiro (Brazil). Unidade de Policia Pacificadora
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses Brazilian favelas, or squatter settlements, focusing on the pacification and integration of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by the Pacifying Police Units (UPP). Other topics include violence against favela residents by the UPPs, the relationship between the favelas, private businesses, markets, and the government, and the defiance of government policies by the people through protests in June 2013.