Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in São Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on São Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, she identifies new patterns of segregation developing in these cities and suggests that these patterns are appearing in many metropolises.
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"This is an extraordinary treatment of a difficult problem.... Much more than a conventional comparative study, City of Walls is a genuinely transcultural, transnational work." - George Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin "Caldeira's work is wonderfully ambitious - theoretically bold, ethnographically rich, historically specific. Anyone who cares about the condition and future of cities, of democracy, of human rights, should read this book." - Thomas Bender, Director of the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges "City of Walls is a brilliant analysis of the dynamics of urban fear. The sophistication of Caldeira's arguments should stimulate new discussion of cities and urban life. Its significance goes far beyond the borders of Brazil." - Margaret Crawford, Harvard University"
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"This is an extraordinary treatment of a difficult problem. . . . Much more than a conventional comparative study, City of Walls is a genuinely transcultural, transnational work--the first of its kind that I have read."--George E. Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick & Thin
"Caldeira's work is wonderfully ambitious-theoretically bold, ethnographically rich, historically specific. Anyone who cares about the condition and future of cities, of democracy, of human rights should read this book."--Thomas Bender, Director of the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges
"City of Walls is a brilliant analysis of the dynamics of urban fear. The sophistication of Caldeira's arguments should stimulate new discussion of cities and urban life. Its significance goes far beyond the borders of Brazil."--Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Planning and Design Theory, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
"Caldeira's insight illuminates the geography of the city as well as the boundaries--or the lack of boundaries--of violence."--Paul Chevigny, author of Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas
"An extraordinary account of violence in the city. . . . Caldeira brings to this task a rare depth of knowledge and understanding."--Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
"An outstanding contribution to understanding authoritarian continuity under political reform. Caldeira has written a brilliant and bleak analysis on the many challenges and obstacles which government and civil society face in new democracies."--Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Director of the Center for the Study of Violence, University of São Paulo and Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
"Caldeira's work is wonderfully ambitious-theoretically bold, ethnographically rich, historically specific. Anyone who cares about the condition and future of cities, of democracy, of human rights should read this book."--Thomas Bender, Director of the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges
"City of Walls is a brilliant analysis of the dynamics of urban fear. The sophistication of Caldeira's arguments should stimulate new discussion of cities and urban life. Its significance goes far beyond the borders of Brazil."--Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Planning and Design Theory, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
"Caldeira's insight illuminates the geography of the city as well as the boundaries--or the lack of boundaries--of violence."--Paul Chevigny, author of Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas
"An extraordinary account of violence in the city. . . . Caldeira brings to this task a rare depth of knowledge and understanding."--Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
"An outstanding contribution to understanding authoritarian continuity under political reform. Caldeira has written a brilliant and bleak analysis on the many challenges and obstacles which government and civil society face in new democracies."--Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Director of the Center for the Study of Violence, University of São Paulo and Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Needed the book for grad school. It was in good shape and easy to navigate. Caldiera gives a good sense of what life is like in Urban Brazil by looking at the world within the favelas of Sao Paolo.
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As violent crime has increased in Sao Paulo in the past fifteen years, so has the fear of crime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private security enterprises, autoconstructed houses, closed condominiums, privileges for bandits, national anthropologists, disjunctive democracy, organic security, defensible architecture, patterned houses, fortified enclaves, local sociability, modern public space, unbounded body, security bloc, national anthropologies, disjunctive character, urban segregation, private security services, civil police, rich residents, ooo population, modernist planning, tertiary activities, central neighborhoods, metropolitan region Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, United States, Sdo Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Vila Andrade, Plano Collor, Americas Watch, Franco Montoro, Jardim Paulista, Alto de Pinheiros, Amnesty International, Carlos Dias, Teresa Caldeira, Amaral Netto, Estado Novo, National Congress, Plano Cruzado, Miguel Paulista, Old Republic, Aldeia da Serra, Avenida Paulista, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Northern Ireland, Centro Santos Dias New!
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As violent crime has increased in Sao Paulo in the past fifteen years, so has the fear of crime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private security enterprises, autoconstructed houses, closed condominiums, privileges for bandits, national anthropologists, disjunctive democracy, organic security, defensible architecture, patterned houses, fortified enclaves, local sociability, modern public space, unbounded body, security bloc, national anthropologies, disjunctive character, urban segregation, private security services, civil police, rich residents, ooo population, modernist planning, tertiary activities, central neighborhoods, metropolitan region Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, United States, Sdo Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Vila Andrade, Plano Collor, Americas Watch, Franco Montoro, Jardim Paulista, Alto de Pinheiros, Amnesty International, Carlos Dias, Teresa Caldeira, Amaral Netto, Estado Novo, National Congress, Plano Cruzado, Miguel Paulista, Old Republic, Aldeia da Serra, Avenida Paulista, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Northern Ireland, Centro Santos Dias New!
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- Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America: Essays on Extralegal Violence by Martha K. Huggins in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Violence and the Sacred by René Girard on page 35, and Back Matter
- Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation by Alfred Stepan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Edge City: Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau on page 272, and Back Matter
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