REFLECTION ON URBAN FORM AND RACIALLY GENDERED MILITARIZATION IN RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL)

Abstract

The article exposes research reflections from 2016 until 2019 around the growth of the militarization of urban space in Rio de Janeiro and the impacts on the black women´s lifes in slums. It qualifies elements related to class, racial and gender determinations in the target of the intensification of the militarization in recent years in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ, Brazil) in the capitalist structural crisis. The methodology consisted of a bibliographic review on the subject based on the keywords, participant observation of women’s groups in workshops held throughout 2019 and documentary research and hemerographic sources. Considers the particular constitution of social classes in peripheral modernity; recovers in the origins of this social formation as the militarization of life intensifies not as a clear strategy for certain purposes – but as a destructive expression of deepening this crisis, enhancing the search for extraction of value on lives that they have always been lost since the origin of the formation of the modern era and, in particular, in its peripheral colonialist expression. Finally, we expose some elements about forms of resistance of these black women.