Spectacles of military urbanism in online representations of the Elite Squad of the military police of Rio de Janeiro
A multimodal approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12347016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Mayr (Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 533-557 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Semiotics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-0330 • E-ISSN: 1470-1219 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10350330.2015.1046215 |
| OpenAlex | W1495861774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper presents a multimodal analysis of online self-representations of the Elite Squad of the military police of Rio de Janeiro, the Special Police Operations Battalion BOPE. The analysis is placed within the wider context of a “new military urbanism”, which is evidenced in the ongoing “Pacification” of many of the city's favelas, in which BOPE plays an active interventionist as well as a symbolic role, and is a kind of solution which clearly fails to address the root causes of violence which lie in poverty and social inequality. The paper first provides a sociocultural account of BOPE's role in Rio's public security and then looks at some of the mainly visual mediated discourses the Squad employs in constructing a public image of itself as a modern and efficient, yet at the same time “magical” police force
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |