Rio as Method brings together a Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center their Brazilian megacity as a globally-relevant source for transformational worldmaking insights.

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Methods and Concepts for a New Generation / Paul Amar  1
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  25
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  43
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  57
4. Rot Politics and the Cunning of Anticorruption / Política de Podridão e a Ardilexa da Anti-corrupção: The Polysemy of Corruption and the Emergence of a Cross-Class Right in Brazil / Sean T. Mitchell and Thayane Brêtas  68
5. Stateness / Estatalidade: Reconceptualizing Bureaucratic-Technical State Effects That Perform Agency, Governmentality, and Subjectivity / Ana Paula Medes de Miranda and María Victoria Pita  79
6. Recolonial Militiarchy / Milciarquia Recolonial: The Political Evolution of Organized Crime / José Claudio Souza Alves  90
7. Parastatal Sexarchy / Sexarquia Parastatal: Mitigated Regulation and Prostitution’s World Making / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva  98
8. Nonbinary Governance Epistemologies / Epistemologias de Governança Nãobinárias: Entangled Circuits of Violence, Grime, add Governmental Syncretism / Fernando Brancoli  111
9. Militianization / Milicianização: Dark Innovation at the State-Crime Frontier / Benjamin Lessing  125
Part II. Space
10. Elactivism / Vereativismo: Merging Contradictory Antistate Social Leadership Roles and Elected Councilwoman Position / Monica Cunha and Leonard Cortana  141
11. Analytics of Raciality / Analítica de Racialidade: Political-Symbolic Processes of Racial Power / Denise Ferreira de Silva  151
12. Black Brotherhood Urbanism / Urbanismo Confrarial Negro: Forms of Urban Expansion Designed by Mutual Aid Societies of Freedman and Slaves / Marcos Coutinho  164
13. Anti-White Patriarchal Ultramodernity / Ultramodernidad Anti-blancopatriarcal: Peripheral Dissent and Gender Battles in São Gonçalo / Osmundo Pinho  174
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  185
15. Fractalscopic Quotidian / Cotidiano Fractaloscópico: The Square as Social Project, the Social Project as a Space in Everyday Life / Marcelo Caetano Andreoli  199
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  208
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  223
18. Genderphobic Binarism / Binarismo Gênerofóbico: The War against Gender as a Political Weapon / Vitória Moreira  234
19. Legal Limbo of Urban Indigeneity / Limbo Jurídico da Indigeneidade Urbana: Indigenous Mobilizations and the Traps of State Visibility / Marcos Alexandre do Santos Albuquerque  243
20. Terreiro Politics and Afro-religious Mobilizations: Política do Terreiro e Moblizações Afro-religiosas: Practices of Black Resistance against Christian Supremacism and Religious Racism / Rosiane Rodrigues de Almeida and Leonardo Vieira Silva  250
21. Kaleidoscopic Arabness / Arabitude Caleidoscópica: Performative Identities of Diasporic Arenas of Syrian-Lebanese Communities / Paulo G. Pinto  262
22. Decarceral Archetypes / Arquétipos Decarcerais: Rio de Janeiro as a Model Laboratory for the Abolition of Prison-Based Torture / Tamires Maria Alves  273
23. The Social Life of Corpses / Vida Social dos Mortos: Transcending Institutional Framings of Death in Rio de Janeiro / Flávia Medeiros  282
Part IV. Futurity
24. Travestirevolutionary Occupy Movements / Ocupações Possessórias Travestirevolucionarias: Solidarity Economies, Anticapitalist Housing Politics, and Nonbinary World Making / Indianare Siqueira  293
25. Reeixistence and “Villaging Up” / Re-existência e Aldeiamento: Indigenous and Anthropological Activist Praxis at Rio’s Nationa museum after Catastropic Fire and through the Bolsonaro Era / Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Cristiane Gomes Julião, and Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado
26. De-hygienization Clusivities / Clusivadades de De-higienização: Urban Renewal and Parastatal Power in Vila Mimosa / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Soraya Simões, Laura Murray, Thayane Brêtas, and Ana Paula da Silva  312
27. Puta Politics / Putapolítica: The Innovative Political Theories and Protest Praxis of Putas / Laura Rebecca Murray  323
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 Rabello Sodré  334
29. Bandungian Futurities / Futuridades Bandungianas: A Future-Oriented Practice for South-to-South Solidarities / Beatriz Bissio  345
30. De-kill / De-matando: Black Mothers’ Epistemology of Violence and Mourning in Rio de Janeiro / Luciane Rocha  352
Contributors  363
Index  375

Paul Amar is Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism, also published by Duke University Press.