Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center their Brazilian megacity as a globally relevant source for transformational world-making insights. Presenting this volume as a handbook and manifesto for energizing public engagement and direct action, more than forty contributors reconceive method as a politics of knowledge production that animates new ways of being, seeing, and doing politics. They draw on lessons from the city’s intersecting religious, feminist, queer, Black, Indigenous, and urbanist movements to examine issues ranging from state violence, urban marginalization, and moral panic to anticorruption efforts, paramilitary policing, sex work, and mutual aid. Rethinking theoretical and collaborative research methods, Rio as Method models theories of decolonial analysis and concepts of collective resistance that can be taken up by scholar-activists anywhere.
Contributors. Rosiane Rodrigues de Almeida, José Claudio Souza Alves, Tamires Maria Alves, Paul Amar, Marcelo Caetano Andreoli, Beatriz Bissio, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Fernando Brancoli, Thayane Brêtas, Victoria Broadus, Fatima Cecchetto, Leonard Cortana, Marcos Coutinho, Monica Cunha, Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado, Marielle Franco, Cristiane Gomes Julião, Benjamin Lessing, Roberto Kant de Lima, Amanda De Lisio, Bryan McCann, Flávia Medeiros, Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda, Sean T. Mitchell, Rodrigo Monteiro, Vitória Moreira, Jacqueline de Oliveira Muniz, Laura Rebecca Murray, Cesar Pinheiro Teixeira, Osmundo Pinho, Paulo Pinto, María Victoria Pita, João Gabriel Rabello Sodré, Luciane Rocha, Marcos Alexandre dos Santos Albuquerque, Ana Paula da Silva, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Soraya Simões, Indianare Siqueira, Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Leonardo Vieira Silva
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Methods and Concepts for a New Generation / Paul Amar
- Part I: State
- 1. The Conquering State and Police War-ification? / O Estado Conquistador e a Guerra-ficaçã de Policiamento? Community Collective Alternatives to the Police and Penal Economies of Pacification / Marielle Franco
- 2. Inquisitorial Model of Juridical Inequality / Modelo Inquisitorial de Desigualdade Jurídica: Recognizing the Persistence of the Colonial Inquisition Regime in Justice Procedure and Police Practice / Roberto Kant de Lima
- 3. Armed Dominions / Domínios Armados: The Fabrication of Insecurity and the Governance of Public Space by Criminal-Political Monopolies in Rio de Janeiro / Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda and
Jacqueline de Oliveira Muniz
- 4. Rot Politics and the Cunning of Anticorruption / Política de Podridão e a Ardileza da Anti-corrupção: The Polysemy of Corruption and the Emergence of a Cross-Class Right in Brazil / Sean T. Mitchell and Thayane Brêtas
- 5. Stateness / Estatalidade: Reconceptualizing Bureaucratic-Technical State Effects That Perform Agency, Governmentality, and Subjectivity / Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda and María Victoria Pita
- 6. Recolonial Militiarchy / Miliciarquia Recolonial: The Political Evolution of Organized Crime / José Cláudio Souza Alves
- 7. Parastatal Sexarchy / Sexarquia Parastatal: Mitigated Regulation and Prostitution’s World Making / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva
- 8. Nonbinary Governance Epistemologies / Epistemologias de Governança Nãobinárias: Entangled Circuits of Violence, Crime, and Governmental Syncretism / Fernando Brancoli
- 9. Militianization / Milicianização: Dark Innovation at the State-Crime Frontier / Benjamin Lessing
- Part II: Space
- 10. Elactivism / Vereativismo: Merging Contradictory Antistate Social Leadership Roles and Elected Councilwoman Positions / Monica Cunha and Leonard Cortana
- 11. Analytics of Raciality / Analítica de Racialidade: Political-Symbolic Processes of Racial Power / Denise Ferreira da Silva
- 12. Black Brotherhood Urbanism / Urbanismo Confrarial Negro: Forms of Urban Expansion Designed by Mutual Aid Societies of Freedmen and Slaves / Marcos Coutinho
- 13. Anti–White Patriarchal Ultramodernity / Ultramodernidade Anti-blancopatriarcal: Peripheral Dissent and Gender Battles in São Gonçalo / Osmundo Pinho
- 14. Quilombo Portness / Quilombismo Portuário: Living Memory and the Porousness of Racial Capitalism in Rio de Janeiro / João Gabriel Rabello Sodré and Amanda De Lisio
- 15. Fractalscopic Quotidian / Cotidiano Fractaloscópico: The Square as Social Project, the Social Project as a Space in Everyday Life / Marcelo Caetano Andreoli
- 16. Involved With as Police Method / Envolvido-Com e Proximidade Punitiva: Selective Guardianship and Itinerant Controls in the Streets of Rio / Jacqueline de Oliveira Muniz, Fatima Cecchetto, and Rodrigo Monteiro
- Part III: Subject
- 17. Pentecostal Repertoires and Narco-warfare Grammars / Repertórios Pentecostais e Gramáticas do Narco-conflito: Fabricating and Inhabiting Religious-Criminal Subjects in an Urban Drug War / Cesar Pinheiro Teixeira
- 18. Genderphobic Binarism / Binarismo Gênerofóbico: The War against Gender as a Political Weapon / Vitória Moreira
- 19. Legal Limbo of Urban Indigeneity / Limbo Jurídico da Indigeneidade Urbana: Indigenous Mobilizations and the Traps of State Visibility / Marcos Alexandre dos Sa ntos Albuquerque
- 20. Terreiro Politics and Afro-religious Mobilizations / Política do Terreiro e Mobilizações Afro-religiosas: Practices of Black Resistance against Christian Supremacism and Religious Racism / Rosiane Rodrigues de Almeida and Leonardo Vieira Silva
- 21. Kaleidoscopic Arabness / Arabitude Caleidoscópica: Performative Identities and Diasporic Arenas of Syrian-Lebanese Communities / Paulo G. Pinto
- 22. Decarceral Archetypes / Arquétipos Decarcerais: Rio de Janeiro as a Model Laboratory for the Abolition of Prison Based Torture / Tamires Maria Alves
- 23. The Social Life of Corpses / Vida Social dos Mortos: Transcending Institutional Framings of Death in Rio de Janeiro / Flávia Medeiros
- Part IV. Futurity
- 24. Travestirevolutionary Occupy Movements / Ocupações Possessórias Travestirevolucionarias: Solidarity Economies, Anticapitalist Housing Politics, and Nonbinary World Making / Indianare Siqueira
- 25. Reexistence and “Villaging Up” / Re-existência e Aldeiamento: Indigenous and Anthropological Activist Praxis at Rio’s National Museum after the Catastrophic Fire and through the Bolsonaro Era / Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Cristiane Gomes Julião, and Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado
- 26. De-hygienization Clusivities / Clusividades de De-higienização: Urban Renewal and Parastatal Power in Vila Mimosa / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Soraya Simões, Laura Rebecca Murray, Thayane Brêtas, and Ana Paula da Silva
- 27. Puta Politics / Putapolítica: The Innovative Political Theories and Protest Praxis of Putas / Laura Rebecca Murray
- 28. Heartbreaking Lyrical Ontology / Ontologia Lírica Comovente: Aldir Blanc and Popular Music as Guides to Carioca Modes of Being in the World / Bryan McCann, Victoria Broadus, and João Gabriel Ra bello Sodré
- 29. Bandungian Futurities / Futuridades Bandungianas: A Future-Oriented Practice for South-to- South Solidarities / Beatriz Bissio
- 30. De-kill / De-matando: Black Mothers’ Epistemology of Violence and Mourning in Rio de Janeiro / Luciane Rocha
- Contributors
- Index
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