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TY - JOUR
T1 - The production of spatial hegemony as statecraft
T2 - an attempted passive revolution in the favelas of Rio
AU - da Silva Lacerda, Daniel
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - In recent years Brazil has deployed a military takeover of dozens of favelas. Presenting data collected from 2012 to 2014 in one of the favelas, I argue that the process of ‘pacification’ is an attempt at passive revolution, which depends more on manufacturing spatial hegemony through non-military strategies than on the war of manoeuvre that is currently being undertaken. This is developed through an articulation of Gramsci’s theoretical framework with Lefebvre’s perspective of the production of space, which exposes the failure to overcome the fragile presence of state in the territory through everyday state formation.
AB - In recent years Brazil has deployed a military takeover of dozens of favelas. Presenting data collected from 2012 to 2014 in one of the favelas, I argue that the process of ‘pacification’ is an attempt at passive revolution, which depends more on manufacturing spatial hegemony through non-military strategies than on the war of manoeuvre that is currently being undertaken. This is developed through an articulation of Gramsci’s theoretical framework with Lefebvre’s perspective of the production of space, which exposes the failure to overcome the fragile presence of state in the territory through everyday state formation.
KW - State building
KW - favelas
KW - Brazil
KW - Gramsci
KW - Lefebvre
KW - hegemony
KW - passive revolution
U2 - 10.1080/01436597.2015.1109437
DO - 10.1080/01436597.2015.1109437
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 1083
EP - 1101
JO - Third World Quarterly
JF - Third World Quarterly
SN - 0143-6597
IS - 6
ER -