“The river of dryness flows into war”: integration, command, control, and military intervention in the contemporary Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes da Conceição, Thayla
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito
• Texto Completo: https://reedrevista.org/reed/article/view/465
• topic: Great Events; Center for Integrated Command and Control Center; Federal Military Intervention; Grandes Eventos; Centro Integrado de Comando e Controle; Intervenção Federal Militar

The city of Rio de Janeiro, becoming, in the contemporary, place of several Great Events, was presented as “Rio2016”, a brand whose official slogan is “A New World”, which reveals the option for the globalized world, the “global north”, that establishes cities as commodities (Vainer, 2000; Simoni Santos, 2006). In this so-called “new world”, the idea of integration between different security and control forces emerges as one of the greatest legacies, and is embodied in the new huge Integrated Command and Control Center (Centro Integrado de Comando e Controle - CICC), a high-tech building made with local and international efforts for the articulation of the security forces that were responsible for ensuring the Great Events in question and also for a desired revolution in the though and management of public security. After the events, a new major security crisis is announced in Rio in 2018, and a federal military intervention was the political-institutional solution adopted for the said crisis. The CICC was chosen as the intervention office. In this paper we will mobilize the CICC as a symbol to think about urban space management in the city of Rio de Janeiro, considering the actual challenge of a extremely conservative management. For this purpouse, we will think together with Stephen Graham (2016) and the “new military urbanism”, Bruno Cardoso (2014) and his reflections on the CICC itself, and Vera Malaguti on political sentiments, especially fear, in the city of Rio (2003).