As implicações territoriais da pacificação de favelas: um estudo sobre a Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora da Mangueira (Rio de Janeiro)

Abstract

This dissertation, proposing a review of the territorial implications of the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) in the Mangueira s favela and its surroundings, was an effort to understand one of the facets of Rio geographical space, mainly in its political-territorial dimension, in addition to enhance the more general debate on the repercussions of the current security policy promoted by the state government of Rio de Janeiro. The research that originated this work was supported in field research and interviews and included the investigation of the relationship between the UPP officers and residents of the Mangueira as well as an analysis of the reorganization of the retail drug trafficking activities due to permanent police presence in this favela. The concepts of territory, common sense, agency, subject, among others, were used by the author to systematize empirical knowledge produced over the 30 months of the research. Nevertheless, more than provide answers, this study sought to discuss some questions about the complex and tough issue of the territorial implications of a security policy aimed at very vulnerable to violence spaces.