From the Backstage of War: the Struggle of Mothers in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro



Título del documento: From the Backstage of War: the Struggle of Mothers in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Revista: Contexto internacional
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000454065
ISSN: 0102-8529
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Ene-Abr
Volumen: 39
Número: 1
Paginación: 35-52
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, socioeconómico
Resumen en inglés This article analyses the political status of mothers whose children have been killed by members of the Brazilian military police and armed forces in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the course of the ‘war against drugs’. These mothers bear witness to the reality of state interference in the lives of their families. The loss of a child interrupts their intimate affective bonds and temporal linkages between the past, present and future, thereby requiring a resignification of the meaning and temporality of their lives. The war waged by the state and the mothers’ struggle for justice gives rise to a social dynamic that positions these mothers in a reordering of space and a redefinition of time, creating a spatio-temporal existence of pain, despair and hope
Disciplinas: Ciencia política,
Sociología
Palabras clave: Proceso político,
Problemas sociales,
Brasil,
Río de Janeiro,
Pobreza,
Favelas,
Violencia
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