GUTTERRES, Anelise dos Santos. Housing and dislocation as State practice and moral discipline in creating territories. []. , 21, 3, pp.569-583. ISSN 0873-6561.

This research is inscribed in urban anthropology and State anthropology and assumes as its starting point the processes of urban transformation and reconfiguration in the city of Rio de Janeiro in recent years, revealing an increase of forced displacements imposed by the city government upon families residing in peripheral and poor areas (favelas). This (un)housing movement is seen as a governmentality practice associated with the construction of vulnerability territories. State actions in those areas are examined through an ethnographic approach of legal causes involving a specialized unit of the public defence office of the State of Rio de Janeiro which is devoted to land and housing issues, and also drawing on previous research in the port area of the city.

: slums; housing; State; public defence; Rio de Janeiro; urban.

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