Abstract
This article addresses the links between violence and markets, between violence as a technology of power and of market expansion, on the thresholds between legality and illegality. We believe this question is the blind spot of current debates about the relationship between (neo)liberalism and authoritarianism, and the “crisis of democracy”. As we postulate, such question became explicit since the right-wing turn in the political constellation of the country and that it is crystallized in the Bolsonaro government. However, it concerns a neoliberal rationality ongoing since the mid-2000s and that has been shaped under the militarized logic of management of the urban order. The paper addresses two moments that have marked the recent history of Rio de Janeiro: first, the assembly of political-institutional devices aimed at the preparation and realization of the World Cup (2014) and the Olympic Games (2016); second, military-financial intervention in a context of economic crisis and fiscal bankruptcy of the state (2018).
Keywords:
Militarization of urban management; Technologies of power; Expansion of markets; Pacifying Police Units (UPP/RJ); Military intervention