Megaeventos e Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora: representações sobre o lugar das favelas no tecido urbano

Abstract

The deployment of the Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPP) has generated great political visibility to the state government of Rio de Janeiro. This started to use the project in order to emphasize the positive features and aspects of change with regard to security policies in the slums. We aim to put this in perspective critical discourse and show another dimension of the UPPs that relates to your sense of continuity. Thus, we used a little-known source and disclosed to establish a relationship between mega events and the implementation of UPPs. The construction of this object, therefore, allowed me to put in discussion the representations of the slums and its residents, proposing other interpretations on such security project. Therefore, this article aims to enlighten, using a critical reading of the sources and based on the scientific literature on the subject, what the UPP project keeps continuity in the relationship and city slums.