Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the rational and professional use of force and on “softer” practices, such as dialogue and collaboration, symbolically coded as feminine. The failure of police reform reflects the cultural salience of understandings of masculinity centered around violence within the police, historical patterns of policing in Rio, and political actors’ strategic cultivation of male violence. Through Rio de Janeiro's failed attempt at police reform, we theorize the relation between racialized state violence, authoritarian political projects, and transgressive forms of male violence, arguing that an important appeal of authoritarianism lies in its promise to carve out a space for performing what we call wild masculinity. [masculinity, race, police, violence, gender, politics, favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]

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暴力男子气概

从历史上看，里约热内卢的警务工作是由种族暴力和阳刚之气形成的。警察改革的尝试自相矛盾地借鉴了男性暴力的形式，这些暴力形式以理性和专业地使用武力为中心，以及“软”的做法，例如对话和合作，象征性地编码为女性。警察改革的失败反映了以警察内部暴力、里约警察的历史模式以及政治行动者对男性暴力的战略培养为中心的对男性气质的理解的文化显着性。通过里约热内卢在警察改革方面的失败尝试，我们对种族化的国家暴力，威权政治计划和侵略性男性暴力之间的关系进行了理论分析，狂野的男子气概。[阳刚之气，种族，警察，暴力，性别，政治，贫民区，里约热内卢，巴西]