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Vulnerable and dominant: Bright and dark side personality traits and values of individuals in organized crime in Denmark. [PDF]

Scand J Psychol, 2022
In this paper, we build on a robust literature on push and pull factors to focus on the personality traits and values of individuals involved in organized crime. We distinguish organized crime from other kinds of criminal activity and recruit a unique sample of non‐incarcerated individuals verified by the Danish National Police to be involved in ...
Gøtzsche-Astrup O, Overgaard B, Lindekilde L.   +2 more
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"All is Normal": Sports Mega Events, Favela Territory, and the Afterlives of Public Security Interventions in Rio de Janeiro. [PDF]

City Soc (Wash), 2021
Abstract This article discusses the changes in Visionário, a favela located near the affluent neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, to assess the effects of the Sports Mega Events (SMEs) on the political and economic conditions in the favela. Following Harvey’s (2005) description of “accumulation by dispossession,” several authors have highlighted that the ...
Oosterbaan M.
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“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 141-150, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant ...
Luminiţa‐Anda Mandache
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The transnational village in Timor‐Leste

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 1-14, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Migrants in 2020 stay connected with their homes in ways unimaginable just 10 years ago. In the case of the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) which facilitates the short term, repeat travel of Timorese to Australia to engage in harvest labour, this connectivity particularly pronounced and important.
Michael Rose
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Shame On You! Unpacking the Individual and Organizational Implications of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 59, Issue 8, Page 2024-2066, December 2022., 2022
Abstract How and when does engagement with a stigmatized organization lead to the transfer of its stigma to organizations and individuals associating with it? To answer this question, we conduct an inductive study of the process of stigma transfer and the conditions determining social actors’ susceptibility to such courtesy stigma. We build our process
Gro Kvåle, Zuzana Murdoch
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Necropolitics Beyond the Exception: Parapolicing, Milícia Urbanism, and the Assassination of Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro

Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 6, Page 1829-1858, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Engaging with the assassination of black city councillor Marielle Franco, the paper discusses how “milícia urbanism”, a formation of power and capital accumulation driven by parapolice networks, intensifies the necropolitical governance of Rio de Janeiro.
Jan Simon Hutta
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Eating pizza in prison

American Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 221-233, May 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father.
GRAHAM DENYER WILLIS
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Housing Movements and the Politics of Worthiness in São Paulo

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 276-296, June 2021., 2021
Abstract Based on research with current and former housing activists in São Paulo, this article identifies the concept of “politics of worthiness” as central to the moral justification and technical legitimation of social movements. Attributions of worthiness have long upheld the relationship between institutionalized grassroots organizations and the ...
Moisés Kopper, Matthew A. Richmond
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Bandidos ou guerrilheiros em Portugal: a violência de 1807 até 1870

Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2014
Durante o século XIX, especialmente na primeira metade daquele século, Portugal foi um país instável, caótico, convulsionado por conflitos, rebeliões e guerras, marcada pela gravíssima situação econômica e financeira do país.
Marianne L. Wiesebron
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Visiones de criminalidad en México: estereotipos de bandidos, construcción del Estado-nación y corrupción

Oficio, Revista de Historia e Interdisciplina, 2018
Durante el siglo XIX en México, la figura del "bandido" fue percibida desde diversos ángulos. Los viajeros extranjeros tenían una visión romántica del bandolero; en contraste, había quienes les temían y las autoridades los calificaban de detractores del ...
Claudia Patricia Rivas Jiménez
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