Críticas ao gato e o gato como crítica: um estudo etnográfico das insinuações realizado a partir da eletricidade na Favela Santa Marta, no Rio de Janeiro

deploying an ethnographic observation of the exchange of accusations between residents of the Santa Marta favela in Rio de Janeiro and agents of the electricity company Light during the time of the Units of the Pacifying Police. We found a predominance, in both sides, of the insinuation of fraud, a veiled accusation of theft – of electricity on the one hand and of money on the other. The relationship between service providers and customers persists between the payment of supposedly abusive bills and the tolerance of the “gato” allegedly practiced by residents.