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SUMMARY:Pedro Mendes Loureiro (CLAS\, Cambridge): The prison consensus: i
 ncarceration\, investment\, and inequality in Brazil
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin Ameri
 can and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series:\n\nWed 4 December 20
 24\, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person\, in Samuel Alexander B
 uilding\, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/9
 5860231166\n\nAbstract: 30 years ago Brazil had incarceration rates comp
 arable to Scandinavia’s. It now has the third-highest prison population 
 in the world. The country has seen periods of economic growth and crisis
 \, of rising and falling poverty and inequality\, and governments from t
 he centre-left to the far right\, but the growth of the carceral infrast
 ructure and its detained population has continued unabated. Brazil has b
 een known for long-standing and marked inequalities\, structured (at lea
 st) by race\, class\, gender\, and geography\, but it is only very recen
 tly that the carceral system has become a central institution in their d
 ynamics. I will present preliminary results of a three-year project\, co
 nducted with Graham Denyer Willis\, Bruna Angotti\, and Luiz Fernando To
 ledo\, that asks: How and where has the carceral system expanded in Braz
 il? What are the political processes that have enabled this? How has thi
 s been legitimated? And who profits from this? We argue that Brazil has 
 become locked into a ‘prison consensus’. The carceral system is decried 
 as a failure by agents of all political persuasions\, but its growing he
 ft entrenches a range of material interests\, while its continual expans
 ion is proposed as a solution to the very problems it creates\, from deh
 umanising conditions for inmates to the proliferation of organised crimi
 nal groups that straddle its walls. \n\nDr Pedro Mendes Loureiro is Asso
 ciate Professor of Latin American Studies\, CLAS and POLIS\, University 
 of Cambridge
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LOCATION:A214\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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