Inside out: militarized command in the state of emergency and democratic management of the city - “Morro dos Prazeres” as a documented profile of police intervention in the carioca urban way of survive

Abstract

Since Rio de Janeiro was chosen to be one of the venues for the 2014 World Cup, and also to
host the 2016 Olympic Games, the city has been undergoing urban transformations and major structural reforms. In this context, the study focus on the city’s increasing militarization and its manifestation in conflict areas. A point of reality was picked from which the maximization of this phenomenal frame can be observed: We will focus, therefore, on a community located in Rio de Janeiro, through the analysis of
scenes extracted from the documentary “Morro dos Prazeres” by Maria Augusta Ramos, in order to verify whether a real state of emergency is in fact institutionalized in the communities under intervention of the Pacifying Police Units (observatory/constructivist step), which echoes in the city management and in the (non-) participation of residents in the neighborhood policy. After this stage, this study intends to expose the significant extent of the city’s democratic management antonym, through the definition of antonyms (antagonist method) - management and command, democracy and totalitarianism, city and country. These
three translated concepts, which, once re-translated, will contribute to clarifying the notion, even if minimal or evident (taken in its simplicity, without deepening it), of democratic management of the city.