Author: Pedro Silva Rocha Lima

Pedro Silva Rocha Lima is a full-time reader and aspiring writer of things people do in their everyday lives (or PhD student in social anthropology at the University of Manchester). His research is focused on the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Brazilian favelas, and it looks at issues of travelling expertise and the governance of urban violence through technologies of risk.

Pedro Silva Rocha Lima

Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border

March, 2019 / By Pedro Silva Rocha Lima

A close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how […]