Presences of a broken State: citizenship and inequality in Rio de Janeiro

The book “Presences of a broken State: citizenship and inequality in Rio de Janeiro”, by Sergio Veloso and Igor Pantoja, is the result of empirical research carried out in the neighborhoods of Parque Colúmbia, Rio de Janeiro, and Chatuba, in the city of Mesquita, is based on the premise that any prognosis for a concrete transformation of the urban reality must be supported by a robust diagnosis of how the State is present in the most peripheral and vulnerable areas.
This is the main question that guides this study, the second carried out as part of the project Right to the city in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, implemented by the BRICS Policy Center, under the BRICS-Urbe program, in partnership with Casa Fluminense and funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.