Between micro-war and macro-peace
Masculinities and femininities in gang warfare in Rio de Janeiro
The use of child soldiers, small arms, new technologies, and new methods to obtain political control, along with the creation and maintenance of a climate of hate, fear, and insecurity, are among the characteristics that distinguish the “newest wars”. Taking Rio de Janeiro, a city that can be considered an example of a “newest war-zone”, Tatiana Moura analyses “masculinised” actors within such wars and women’s resistance to masculinised practices in contexts of “formal peace”.
