The research for this book began in 1997, when Brazil's elites still hoped to achieve the
integration of the country into a modern global order, and of the urban poor into a …

This introduction to the special issue on 'the technopolitics of security'outlines key concepts
and engages debates pertaining to the relationship between techno-materiality, security …

While much of the literature on social resilience is concerned with how cities overcome
“shocks” to the urban system, much less is known about the strategies of survival and …

This article aims to contribute to recent debates on the politics of smart grids by exploring
their installation in low-income areas in Kingston (Jamaica) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). To …

This article contributes to debates about the everyday negotiation of difference, inequality
and conflict in cities by developing the notion of 'coexisting normative regimes'. Normative …

This paper conceptualizes dwelling as an analytical lens to study the effects of combined
human-made and environmental threats on the governing of peripheral urbanization. I call …

Rio de Janeiro's police officers habitually work on the edge of a border–between
rationalised and ordered routines on one hand, and risk, disorder and incipient violence on …

This article reconsiders contemporary urban security governance. Conceptually, it revisits
Foucault's governmentality lectures to comprehend how security governance is carried out …

Esta tese trata da coexistência de distintos regimes normativos em territórios de periferia
urbana, ou seja, da interação entre diferentes lógicas, moralmente informadas, a …

The paper aims to identify and analyze what types of governance challenges for sustainable
regional development in the context of globalization are more frequently found in …