Some of my recent publications are:

2025. “The Unspoken Whiteness of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: the Gracies versus Luta Livre. Martial Arts Studies. Issue 18, pages: 78-93 https://mas.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.18573/mas.300

2025. “The Invisibility of Race in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Gracies versus Capoeira and Judo.” Martial Arts Studies.  Issue 17, pages: 60-75
https://mas.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.18573/mas.281

2019. “Tubarão and Seu Lázaro’s dog: spectacular and banal violence in a Brazilian favela,” Ethnography (special issue: Ethnographies of Violence in Latin America). 20(3): 397-416. Published online December 13, 2018 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14661381188181902016.

2016. Pacifying the Empire of Love: Sport, Spectacle and Security in Rio de Janeiro,” Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies (special issue: Pacification, Violence and Geographies of Class and Race in Rio de Janeiro), 4(2): 254-282. PacifyingtheEmpireofLove-Brasiliana-4-2-2016

2013. “Invading the Favela: Echoes of Police Practices among Brazil’s Urban Poor.” In Policing and Contemporary Governance: The Anthropology of Police in Practice, William Garriott, ed. Palgrave Macmillan.

2011. “Lost bullets: fetishes of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” Anthropological Quarterly, 84(20):411-438.AQ-LostBullets-final

2011. “States of Insecurity,” in Victoria Bernal, ed. Contemporary Cultures, Global Connections: Anthropology for the 21st Century. Cognella Press. (reprint of 2009 article)

2010. “The Owner of the Hill: Masculinity and Drug-Trafficker Power in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 15(2):317-337. Penglase-OwneroftheHill-JLACA-final

2009. “States of Insecurity: everyday emergencies, public secrets and drug trafficker power in a Brazilian favela,” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 32(1): 407-423. Penglase-StatesofInsecurity-Final

2008. “The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship: the Comando Vermelho and the Birth of ‘Narco-Culture’ in Rio de Janeiro,” The Luso-Brazilian Review, 45(1): 118-145. Penglase-BastardChild-LBR

2007. “Barbarians on the Beach: media narratives of violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” Crime Media Culture, 3(3): 305-325. Penglase-CMC

2005. “The Shutdown of Rio de Janeiro: the Poetics of Drug Trafficker Violence, Anthropology Today, 21(5): 3-6. penglaseanthtoday