The big city and life in crime: an ethnography of crime markets in the periphery of São Paulo

Author(s)

Liniker Giamarim Batista

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2015-12-06

Examining board members

Ronaldo Almeida; Daniel Veloso Hirata; Karina Biondi

• Advisor: Ronaldo Almeida; Gabriel de Santis Feltran

Abstract

This work is inserted into the contemporary debate on urban peripheries and the violent urban criminality in the city of São Paulo. It is the result of a field work which took place in a neighborhood on the East Zone of São Paulo, which I named as Vila Operária, from 2011 to 2014. Based on the literature that conceives the "criminal world" of metropolitan periphery as an instance of power which disputes legitimacy with other regulatory provisions of these territories (state law, the work ethic, religious dogma etc.), this study aims to examine the markets in which the "world of crime" is inserted in the context of Vila Operária district. Thus, establishing the lexicon that sets them internally, and showing how such markets are the producers of a specific territoriality, flow of actors, of products, of money and social codes in the meshes of the city, being able to be considered therefore, producers of the city itself (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/02034-7 - The territorialization of the "criminal world": the production of space in the periphery
• Grantee: Liniker Giamarim Batista
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master