Interplay between area-based security policies and daily security practices in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Rainer Wehrhahn
• Subject Area: Human Geography
• Term: from 2012 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 221578612

In residential areas of the broader Brazilian middle class, security policies have been intensified and, particularly, technical security measures have been massively expanded for several years. This progress influences and limits everyday action patterns of the urban population increasingly, and changes communicative and social structures and processes in local urban space intensively. Referring to the discussion of geographical urban and security studies, it is the main purpose of the project to study daily security-oriented actions, at the microscale level of households, neighbourhoods and districts of the urban middle class in the municipality of São Paulo (Brazil), and to understand their interplay with public and private security policies Therefore, it will be interface a human geographical perspective both with actor-oriented as well as praxeological approaches.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Brazil
• Cooperation Partner: Professorin Dr. Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos