POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arson, Class Consciousness, Megaphone
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Such as not having sex with gang members, husbands, boyfriends unless they give up their positions. Therefore, weapons of the weak demonstrates not buying into the ideology/consciousness/ideas of the state and that the state cannot get into the minds of their citizens, unless there is a gun pointed to their head. Favela of brazil is an example of social non movement, much harder to find images of these. Appear in 1970s when rural brazilians moved in and defined work but could not find places to live so they ended up here in these slum looking areas and occupied valuable real estate. Bad infrastructure, crimes, related to slums, hard to get a living. They tried to move people into private housing. Favela is very costly to the government because the slums are on prime real-state and if these people are stealing electricity.
