Violence, Care and Coloniality: Mega Operation in Rio de Janeiro in 2025

This article analyzes the mega police operation carried out in 2025 in the Alemão and Penha complexes in Rio de Janeiro, articulating it with three theoretical axes: care democracies, securitization, and body-territory. It is argued that the operation did not constitute an isolated event, but the expression of a state logic structured by the neglect of care, the militarization of public security, and the continuity of coloniality over bodies and racialized territories. Based on Joan Tronto's ethics of care, it is demonstrated that the Brazilian democratic deficit is intrinsically linked to the unequal distribution of care and the persistent exclusion of Black, Indigenous and peripheral populations. Based on the theory of securitization and necropolitics, it discusses how the discourse of the "war on drugs" legitimizes practices of exception and transforms favelas into spaces permanently vulnerable to state violence. Finally, the concept of body-territory is mobilized to show how violent interventions reproduce colonial dynamics of control and deterritorialization. Access the full article here:

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