Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Salem, Tomas"
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Emergent Police States. Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio’s Favelas to Bolsonaro
Salem, Tomas; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Pacifying Police Units, rolled out in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, were part of a police intervention conceived to end the logic of war that characterized the city’s public security policies. As ... -
Introduction: Exceptionalism and necropolitical security dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Ystanes, Margit; Salem, Tomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities ... -
Permanent Impermanence in the Anthropocene: The emergence of a guest-worker society in a Patagonian Mountain village
Salem, Tomas (Journal article, 2023)At a stage of capitalism where “the environment” emerges as an existential category, conservation policies become weaved into processes of expulsion. The idea that there is not enough for everyone reconfigures social ... -
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right
Salem, Tomas (Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies;, Book; Peer reviewed, 2024) -
Taming the War Machine: Police, Pacification and Power in Rio de Janeiro
Salem, Tomas (Master thesis, 2016-09-08)In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio's poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) - allegedly a proximity policing ... -
Violent masculinities: Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro
Salem, Tomas; Larkins, Erika Robb (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the ...