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| Author(s): |
Ana Paula Galdeano Cruz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2009-07-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Filomena Gregori;
Sergio Adorno;
Renato Sérgio de Lima;
Ronaldo Almeida;
Guita Grin Debert
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| Advisor: | Maria Filomena Gregori |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation investigates civil society participation in debates on public security and violence prevention in São Paulo. Through fieldwork in two socioeconomically distinct neighborhoods - Sapopemba and Campo Belo - I seek to understand citizens' narratives of violence and their opinions about the (so called) ?perpetrators? and the possible solutions to solve the problems. The principal site of fieldwork were the Local Security Councils in which policemen, municipal officials, ordinary people, community leaders and human rights organizations get together to talk about local problems. In this multifaceted conflict of narratives, I highlight changes in the language of rights employed in, and the inequalities that underlie the debate - stereotypes of class, gender, ethnicity, age, and sometimes religion. To contribute to a wider discussion about the institutional and symbolic obstacles to establish a public prevention policy, I also did fieldwork in favelas targeted for police operations (Operação Saturação) and at the meetings of the Joint Independent Commission (Comissão Independente e Mista), an ad-hoc body charged with investigating the murders that followed the May 2006 wave of attacks perpetrated by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) faction. (AU) | |