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.

“This collection of short, punchy essays by Brazilian scholar-activists crafts a uniquely Latin American methodology in order to decolonize the way we have traditionally approached Rio de Janeiro and Brazil more generally. Radically innovative, Rio as Method questions the usual weight given to citation practices and scholarly pedigrees so prevalent in the Global North, which frequently reproduce the very exclusions they examine. This project breaks new ground by privileging the voices of Brazilians who are thinking and living through their nation’s race, class, and gender inequalities.” - Carmen Alvaro Jarrin, author of (The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil) “This wonderful and heterogeneous volume is awesome in its reach. It will be foundational for new approaches to thinking about the dynamics of authoritarianism and racial capitalism in the context of Rio de Janeiro’s deep historical legacies that hearken back to enslavement and the colonial plantation system. Rio as Method makes important contributions to interdisciplinary formations ranging from urban studies, Brazilian studies, and Latin American political economy studies to discussions of racial capitalism in the Americas, Global South studies, and beyond.” - Macarena Gómez-Barris, author of (The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives) "[Rio as Method] brings together highly innovative sociological perspectives in the study of the city’s progressive coming of age. The book compiles a range of essays with an unashamedly decolonial flavour that explore dynamic and experimental forays into the quest for answers to social ills." (Latin American Review of Books)

• Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Methods and Concepts for a New Generation / Paul Amar  1Part I. State1. 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  252. 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  433. 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  574. 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  685. Stateness / Estatalidade: Reconceptualizing Bureaucratic-Technical State Effects That Perform Agency, Governmentality, and Subjectivity / Ana Paula Medes de Miranda and MarÍa Victoria Pita  796. Recolonial Militiarchy / Milciarquia Recolonial: The Political Evolution of Organized Crime / JosÉ Claudio Souza Alves  907. Parastatal Sexarchy / Sexarquia Parastatal: Mitigated Regulation and Prostitution’s World Making / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva  988. Nonbinary Governance Epistemologies / Epistemologias de GovernanÇa NÃobinÁrias: Entangled Circuits of Violence, Grime, add Governmental Syncretism / Fernando Brancoli  1119. Militianization / MilicianizaÇÃo: Dark Innovation at the State-Crime Frontier / Benjamin Lessing  125Part II. Space10. Elactivism / Vereativismo: Merging Contradictory Antistate Social Leadership Roles and Elected Councilwoman Position / Monica Cunha and Leonard Cortana  14111. Analytics of Raciality / AnalÍtica de Racialidade: Political-Symbolic Processes of Racial Power / Denise Ferreira de Silva  15112. Black Brotherhood Urbanism / Urbanismo Confrarial Negro: Forms of Urban Expansion Designed by Mutual Aid Societies of Freedman and Slaves / Marcos Coutinho  16413. Anti-White Patriarchal Ultramodernity / Ultramodernidad Anti-blancopatriarcal: Peripheral Dissent and Gender Battles in SÃo GonÇalo / Osmundo Pinho  17414. Quilombo Portness / Quilombismo PortuÁrio: Living Memory and the Porousness of Racial Capitalism in Rio de Janeiro / JoÃo Gabriel Rabello SodrÉ and Amanda de Lisio  18515. Fractalscopic Quotidian / Cotidiano FractaloscÓpico: The Square as Social Project, the Social Project as a Space in Everyday Life / Marcelo Caetano Andreoli  19916. 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  208Part III. Subject17. 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  22318. Genderphobic Binarism / Binarismo GÊnerofÓbico: The War against Gender as a Political Weapon / VitÓria Moreira  23419. Legal Limbo of Urban Indigeneity / Limbo JurÍdico da Indigeneidade Urbana: Indigenous Mobilizations and the Traps of State Visibility / Marcos Alexandre do Santos Albuquerque  24320. 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  25021. Kaleidoscopic Arabness / Arabitude CaleidoscÓpica: Performative Identities of Diasporic Arenas of Syrian-Lebanese Communities / Paulo G. Pinto  26222. Decarceral Archetypes / ArquÉtipos Decarcerais: Rio de Janeiro as a Model Laboratory for the Abolition of Prison-Based Torture / Tamires Maria Alves  27323. The Social Life of Corpses / Vida Social dos Mortos: Transcending Institutional Framings of Death in Rio de Janeiro / FlÁvia Medeiros  282Part IV. Futurity24. Travestirevolutionary Occupy Movements / OcupaÇÕes PossessÓrias Travestirevolucionarias: Solidarity Economies, Anticapitalist Housing Politics, and Nonbinary World Making / Indianare Siqueira  29325. 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 Amado26. 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  31227. Puta Politics / PutapolÍtica: The Innovative Political Theories and Protest Praxis of Putas / Laura Rebecca Murray  32328. 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  33429. Bandungian Futurities / Futuridades Bandungianas: A Future-Oriented Practice for South-to-South Solidarities / Beatriz Bissio  34530. De-kill / De-matando: Black Mothers’ Epistemology of Violence and Mourning in Rio de Janeiro / Luciane Rocha  352Contributors  363Index  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.

“This collection of short, punchy essays by Brazilian scholar-activists crafts a uniquely Latin American methodology in order to decolonize the way we have traditionally approached Rio de Janeiro and Brazil more generally. Radically innovative, Rio as Method questions the usual weight given to citation practices and scholarly pedigrees so prevalent in the Global North, which frequently reproduce the very exclusions they examine. This project breaks new ground by privileging the voices of Brazilians who are thinking and living through their nation’s race, class, and gender inequalities.” - Carmen Alvaro Jarrin, author of (The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil) “This wonderful and heterogeneous volume is awesome in its reach. It will be foundational for new approaches to thinking about the dynamics of authoritarianism and racial capitalism in the context of Rio de Janeiro’s deep historical legacies that hearken back to enslavement and the colonial plantation system. Rio as Method makes important contributions to interdisciplinary formations ranging from urban studies, Brazilian studies, and Latin American political economy studies to discussions of racial capitalism in the Americas, Global South studies, and beyond.” - Macarena Gómez-Barris, author of (The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives) "[Rio as Method] brings together highly innovative sociological perspectives in the study of the city’s progressive coming of age. The book compiles a range of essays with an unashamedly decolonial flavour that explore dynamic and experimental forays into the quest for answers to social ills." (Latin American Review of Books)

• Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Methods and Concepts for a New Generation / Paul Amar  1Part I. State1. 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  252. 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  433. 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  574. 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  685. Stateness / Estatalidade: Reconceptualizing Bureaucratic-Technical State Effects That Perform Agency, Governmentality, and Subjectivity / Ana Paula Medes de Miranda and MarÍa Victoria Pita  796. Recolonial Militiarchy / Milciarquia Recolonial: The Political Evolution of Organized Crime / JosÉ Claudio Souza Alves  907. Parastatal Sexarchy / Sexarquia Parastatal: Mitigated Regulation and Prostitution’s World Making / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva  988. Nonbinary Governance Epistemologies / Epistemologias de GovernanÇa NÃobinÁrias: Entangled Circuits of Violence, Grime, add Governmental Syncretism / Fernando Brancoli  1119. Militianization / MilicianizaÇÃo: Dark Innovation at the State-Crime Frontier / Benjamin Lessing  125Part II. Space10. Elactivism / Vereativismo: Merging Contradictory Antistate Social Leadership Roles and Elected Councilwoman Position / Monica Cunha and Leonard Cortana  14111. Analytics of Raciality / AnalÍtica de Racialidade: Political-Symbolic Processes of Racial Power / Denise Ferreira de Silva  15112. Black Brotherhood Urbanism / Urbanismo Confrarial Negro: Forms of Urban Expansion Designed by Mutual Aid Societies of Freedman and Slaves / Marcos Coutinho  16413. Anti-White Patriarchal Ultramodernity / Ultramodernidad Anti-blancopatriarcal: Peripheral Dissent and Gender Battles in SÃo GonÇalo / Osmundo Pinho  17414. Quilombo Portness / Quilombismo PortuÁrio: Living Memory and the Porousness of Racial Capitalism in Rio de Janeiro / JoÃo Gabriel Rabello SodrÉ and Amanda de Lisio  18515. Fractalscopic Quotidian / Cotidiano FractaloscÓpico: The Square as Social Project, the Social Project as a Space in Everyday Life / Marcelo Caetano Andreoli  19916. 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  208Part III. Subject17. 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  22318. Genderphobic Binarism / Binarismo GÊnerofÓbico: The War against Gender as a Political Weapon / VitÓria Moreira  23419. Legal Limbo of Urban Indigeneity / Limbo JurÍdico da Indigeneidade Urbana: Indigenous Mobilizations and the Traps of State Visibility / Marcos Alexandre do Santos Albuquerque  24320. 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  25021. Kaleidoscopic Arabness / Arabitude CaleidoscÓpica: Performative Identities of Diasporic Arenas of Syrian-Lebanese Communities / Paulo G. Pinto  26222. Decarceral Archetypes / ArquÉtipos Decarcerais: Rio de Janeiro as a Model Laboratory for the Abolition of Prison-Based Torture / Tamires Maria Alves  27323. The Social Life of Corpses / Vida Social dos Mortos: Transcending Institutional Framings of Death in Rio de Janeiro / FlÁvia Medeiros  282Part IV. Futurity24. Travestirevolutionary Occupy Movements / OcupaÇÕes PossessÓrias Travestirevolucionarias: Solidarity Economies, Anticapitalist Housing Politics, and Nonbinary World Making / Indianare Siqueira  29325. 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 Amado26. 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  31227. Puta Politics / PutapolÍtica: The Innovative Political Theories and Protest Praxis of Putas / Laura Rebecca Murray  32328. 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  33429. Bandungian Futurities / Futuridades Bandungianas: A Future-Oriented Practice for South-to-South Solidarities / Beatriz Bissio  34530. De-kill / De-matando: Black Mothers’ Epistemology of Violence and Mourning in Rio de Janeiro / Luciane Rocha  352Contributors  363Index  375