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The chapter looks at the making of an important symbol of the 2013 Brazilian uprising. In July 2013, Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer in the community of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, disappeared without a trace during a police investigation. This disappearance assembled into a political event of national and international resonance. While analysing the politics of memory around Amarildo’s figure, Soreanu theorises a new modality of State power: hyperpolitics, a politics of pure traumatic excess, consisting in the erasure of the demarcating line between life and death.
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Soreanu, R. (2018). Faces. In: Working-through Collective Wounds. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58523-3_8
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