Podcast appearances and mentions of erika robb larkins

Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio's most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in American Ethnologist, City and Society, and the Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and in public outlets including El País and O Estado de São Paulo. In addition to all of her activities, Erika is the President of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

After the emancipation of slavery in the late nineteenth century, Afro-Brazilians moved to cities like Rio de Janeiro in search of employment. Because of the lack of opportunity and a shortage of resources, Brazilians set up their own housing arrangements on the hillsides above the city. These neighborhoods are known today as favelas. Since their inception, governments and modernists have considered favelas to be an obstacle to the realization of Brazil as a modern state. The early republic, the military dictatorship of the Cold War era, and the post-dictatorship return to democracy have all used a “state of exception” to justify aggressive policing, or pacification, policies. The 2016 Summer Olympic Games will take place in Brazil next year, and increased attention has been placed on favelas as the government works to pacify the neighborhoods and secure the cities for international visitors. Tourists, however, occasionally opt to cross established boundaries and engage in favela tourism, seeking to observe the spectacle of these neighborhoods firsthand. Erika Robb Larkins, an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, recently completed The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015). Her book is an ethnographic study of the Rocinha neighborhood, a favela in Rio de Janeiro and one of the most famous favelas in Latin America. Dr. Larkins’s experience and research demonstrates that the violence frequently observed in favelas is not native to those neighborhoods. Rather, the spectacle of violence for which favelas are notorious is a response to the lack of housing, education, and medical resources for some of the nation’s poorest residents. Governments continue to assert a state of exception to justify welfare spending and security policies. Yet a constant lack of resources due to corruption causes a turn towards drugs and crime for subsistence. Thus, traffickers are empowered create and enforce rules of law in favelas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the emancipation of slavery in the late nineteenth century, Afro-Brazilians moved to cities like Rio de Janeiro in search of employment. Because of the lack of opportunity and a shortage of resources, Brazilians set up their own housing arrangements on the hillsides above the city. These neighborhoods are known... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the emancipation of slavery in the late nineteenth century, Afro-Brazilians moved to cities like Rio de Janeiro in search of employment. Because of the lack of opportunity and a shortage of resources, Brazilians set up their own housing arrangements on the hillsides above the city. These neighborhoods are known today as favelas. Since their inception, governments and modernists have considered favelas to be an obstacle to the realization of Brazil as a modern state. The early republic, the military dictatorship of the Cold War era, and the post-dictatorship return to democracy have all used a “state of exception” to justify aggressive policing, or pacification, policies. The 2016 Summer Olympic Games will take place in Brazil next year, and increased attention has been placed on favelas as the government works to pacify the neighborhoods and secure the cities for international visitors. Tourists, however, occasionally opt to cross established boundaries and engage in favela tourism, seeking to observe the spectacle of these neighborhoods firsthand. Erika Robb Larkins, an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, recently completed The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015). Her book is an ethnographic study of the Rocinha neighborhood, a favela in Rio de Janeiro and one of the most famous favelas in Latin America. Dr. Larkins’s experience and research demonstrates that the violence frequently observed in favelas is not native to those neighborhoods. Rather, the spectacle of violence for which favelas are notorious is a response to the lack of housing, education, and medical resources for some of the nation’s poorest residents. Governments continue to assert a state of exception to justify welfare spending and security policies. Yet a constant lack of resources due to corruption causes a turn towards drugs and crime for subsistence. Thus, traffickers are empowered create and enforce rules of law in favelas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As President Obama and world leaders convened in France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Suzette Grillot spoke with Italian citizen Katia Girotto about Italy's memory of World War II. June 4 marked the 70th anniversary of the fall of Rome. Later, a conversation with University of Oklahoma anthropologist Erika Robb Larkins about Brazil's favela neighborhoods ahead of next week's opening of the World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics.

Suzette Grillot wraps up a three week, two continent trip with a discussion from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with University of Oklahoma anthropologist and International Studies professor Erika Robb Larkins. Later, Suzette and Rebecca Cruise discuss the five Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film ahead of Sunday evening's Academy Awards.

Suzette Grillot joins the program via Skype from Tuscany for a discussion on the fall of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Italy's economic and political crisis. University of Oklahoma anthropologist Erika Robb Larkins offers her take on the Brazilian police crackdown in the poor sections of Rio de Janiero ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Muneer Awad, the executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, updates the panel on the status of his lawsuit against the voter-approved State Question 755.