Periferias e urbanidades: espaços de violência e inflexão do local e global

Abstract

From an urban violence perspective, specifically in the state of Rio de Janeiro, this paper seeks to analyze the program called “Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora” beyond the traditional concept of security in which it is generally conceived, meaning, the understanding that it is simply the synonym for the use of force at Rio's favelas. Therefore, a contemporary approach on violence and the cadence of (un)security events will be sought, considering how the program's lack of articulation with social issues, different instances, and bureaucratic bodies of the State and civil society itself, can also be interpreted as components adjacent to its existence and objectives, directly influencing its collapse since 2015. From this, there is a fundamental need for the territorialization of the debates of this security agenda together with the conception of development, essentially for the evolution of discussions in the discipline of International Relations, which still faces challenges to analyze the binomial beyond the privileged and homogenizing space that takes the State as a substrate regarding the discussion. In the global-local context, this would be how the “urban chaos” paradigm and international actors through humanitarian development programs would shape cities in the global South and public security programs, such as the UPPs