Jovens, programas sociais e pacificação: as alternativas de gestão estatal da pobreza e violência na Cidade de Deus

Abstract

This essay has the objective of analyzing some of the strategies adopted by Rio de Janeiro's state government while trying to control urban violence and manage poverty territories. This politics and practices of management and control were implemented recently through the Peacekeeping police units (UPP in Portuguese) and youthhood reference center (CRJ) in Cidade de Deus (CDD) and other territories. This process was based on commodification of spaces, territories, lives, dwelling ways related to the setting of a new urban model coming off the context of preparing Rio de Janeiro for "Greater events". Discursive and technical devices were deployed for renewal, for the production of creative action and the support of individual, collective, and local entrepreneurial spirit, justified as necessary to improve life condition of the locals, more precisely CDD's younger residents. I tried to identify the meaning of these practices and politics that sought to establish a controlled environment for new businesses and techniques devised to control Rio de Janeiro's youthhood "idle time. The challenge presented was to "unlink the links" articulating spatial management and youth population control forms through the lenses of entrepreneurship.