BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260201T150056EST-0554zeWNZm@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260201T200056Z DESCRIPTION:From Marta Laura Haynes -\n\nMy forthcoming book\, Untrusting: In Pursuit of Democratic Policing in Brazil (Columbia University Press)\, draws on over a decade of ethnographic research in Rio de Janeiro and Reci fe. It examines how democratic policing reforms—promoted as human rights–b ased interventions to curb police abuse and restore trust—ended up reprodu cing inequality and violence. I define untrusting as a deliberate\, embodi ed skepticism toward institutions\, rooted in intergenerational experience rather than abstract critique. While mistrust is often framed as an obsta cle to democracy and civic engagement\, I argue that it can also serve as a foundation for agency and a mode of care\, especially among marginalized populations.\n \n To capture this dynamic\, I shadowed homicide task forces and military police patrols\, observed community policing initiatives\, a nd lived in favelas where residents navigate violence\, poverty\, and stat e neglect. The book demonstrates how untrusting is not simply the absence of trust\, but a political practice that reshapes democratic life from the ground up.\n \n This talk highlights Chapter 3\, Policing the Amphibious Ci ty\, which situates Recife’s urban mangroves as a site where policing\, de velopment\, and environmental racism intersect. In a city divided into wet and dry\, contaminated and pure\, Black and white\, the mangroves stand a s a stigmatized landscape racialized as an extension of the Black body. By positioning the mangroves as a space of mistrust and radical possibility\ , I explore how cultural narratives of trust shape people’s relations with the state and how untrusting redefines risk\, care\, and safety beyond he gemonic frameworks.\n DTSTART:20260129T173000Z DTEND:20260129T190000Z LOCATION:Room 160 \, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Untrusting: Policing the Amphibious City\, Lecture by Marta Laura H aynes URL:/anthropology/channels/event/untrusting-policing-a mphibious-city-lecture-marta-laura-haynes-370029 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR