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Brothers in the Promised Land: crime, church, and land regularization in São Paulo

ABSTRACT

The argument we develop in this article is that crime, church, private companies, and social movements are the main subjects that operate extensions of the violence of urbanization in the periphery of São Paulo. This violence is mediated, first, by private property as the foundation of living in the capitalist city; second, by the State and urban planning as reproducers of real estate valorization and socio-spatial segregation; and third, by the damage of everyday life permeated by the urban deprivation. Therefore, a shared hegemony of everyday life takes shape, articulated by the land issue at the center of disputes for order. This hypothesis arises from ethnographic research carried out since 2017 in favelas in the East Zone of São Paulo.

KEYWORDS
Shared hegemony; ethnography; socio-spatial segregation

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