Developmental policies, or development projects in general, have consistently failed to achieve their stated objectives by being based on a «construction» of the country/community/space that bears little relation to local culture. While development projects fail, the government succeeds in expanding the field of bureaucratic state power in the space that needs to be «developed». Seen from a notion of governmentality, socially legitimated authorities interfere in spaces isolated from the actual development by focusing on adjudicating the vices or virtues of developmental policies and their risks or lack thereof. In this way, risk works as a calculative rationally associated with welfare as a way of representing events, such as flooding, so they can be made governable. By focusing on the contrast between the risk perceptions of the state and river communities in the district of Belen, ...

The social phenomenon of prostitution is immersed in a lot of situations, unfortunately most of them are invisible and obscured from the stigmas generated from the prevailing social and moral order. It is possible, however, within this range of situations, to interpret prostitution from the context of a former licensed brothel that, since the seventies, has given refuge to a large number of women who chose to work in prostitution. It is from this context that the investigation seeks to unravel a paradox situation from six depth interviews to women who prostitute in El Trocadero: women that even working in a legal brothel are socially stigmatized.

Developmental policies, or development projects in general, have consistently failed to achieve their stated objectives by being based on a «construction» of the country/community/space that bears little relation to local culture. While development projects fail, the government succeeds in expanding the field of bureaucratic state power in the space that needs to be «developed». Seen from a notion of governmentality, socially legitimated authorities interfere in spaces isolated from the actual development by focusing on adjudicating the vices or virtues of developmental policies and their risks or lack thereof. In this way, risk works as a calculative rationally associated with welfare as a way of representing events, such as flooding, so they can be made governable. By focusing on the contrast between the risk perceptions of the state and river communities in the district of Belen, ...

The social phenomenon of prostitution is immersed in a lot of situations, unfortunately most of them are invisible and obscured from the stigmas generated from the prevailing social and moral order. It is possible, however, within this range of situations, to interpret prostitution from the context of a former licensed brothel that, since the seventies, has given refuge to a large number of women who chose to work in prostitution. It is from this context that the investigation seeks to unravel a paradox situation from six depth interviews to women who prostitute in El Trocadero: women that even working in a legal brothel are socially stigmatized.

The social phenomenon of prostitution is immersed in a lot of situations, unfortunately most of them are invisible and obscured from the stigmas generated from the prevailing social and moral order. It is possible, however, within this range of situations, to interpret prostitution from the context of a former licensed brothel that, since the seventies, has given refuge to a large number of women who chose to work in prostitution. It is from this context that the investigation seeks to unravel a paradox situation from six depth interviews to women who prostitute in El Trocadero: women that even working in a legal brothel are socially stigmatized.

Developmental policies, or development projects in general, have consistently failed to achieve their stated objectives by being based on a «construction» of the country/community/space that bears little relation to local culture. While development projects fail, the government succeeds in expanding the field of bureaucratic state power in the space that needs to be «developed». Seen from a notion of governmentality, socially legitimated authorities interfere in spaces isolated from the actual development by focusing on adjudicating the vices or virtues of developmental policies and their risks or lack thereof. In this way, risk works as a calculative rationally associated with welfare as a way of representing events, such as flooding, so they can be made governable. By focusing on the contrast between the risk perceptions of the state and river communities in the district of Belen, ...