Teoria e Cultura

This issue discusses how violence and resistance related to urban conflicts have multiplied and diversified in Brazil in recent years. The selected texts revisit debates proposed by pioneering research that relates violence, civil society and social movements. In addition, they engage with more recent literature that analyzes Brazilian urban violence and its impacts, emphasizing the territorial, criminal, state, infrastructural, ethnic-racial, intersectional, generational and/or religious dimensions of this phenomenon. In short, the works that make up the dossier discuss violence and resistance based on reflections on: 1) urban trajectories, illegalities and everyday life; 2) the constitution of imaginaries and symbolic aspects in dispute between armed groups; 3) security, health and drug policies; 4) urban conflicts and collective mobilizations based on labor, cultural, religious and literary dynamics; 5) representations and self-representation of the margins.