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Author Erika Robb Larkins provides an in-depth analysis of violence in the ethnography Spectacular Favela. How does the author discuss the entangled forms of violence, spectacle and commodification in the Brazilian favela and popular imagination?Describe the various notions of structural, performative, cultural, domestic and histories of ‘violence’ described by the author. How is this violence depicted, embodied by residents and depicted to the world outside the favela? How is this violence commodified in various forms within and outside of Brazil? After assessing this entanglement, discuss how this violence is ‘spectacular’ and demonstrated through trafficking governance, the government of Brazil and in various commodified media depictions of the Brazilian favela.Finally, how do all these various forms of violence create a ‘state of exception’ in the Brazilian favela and reduce its residents to a form of ‘bare life’?
