The porosity of the walls: resonances and crossings within city and prison

• Grant number: 16/20695-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): June 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Vera da Silva Telles
• Grantee: Fábio Mallart Moreira
• Supervisor: Manuela Ivone Paredes Pereira da Cunha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Universidade do Minho (UMinho), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/02165-2 - Punishment, imprisonment and medicalization: management techniques of undesirable and dangerous bodies, BP.DR

Abstract

This project presents a proposal for Research Internships Abroad Program (BEPE) to be developed in a 12-month period (June 2017 - May 2018), with Professor Manuela Ivone Cunha, Ph.D. from University of Minho in Portugal as advisor. Based on an ethnographic research carried out in different urban areas of São Paulo - including - urban peripheral neighborhoods, prisons, juvenile detention units, psychiatric hospitals and urban territories such as "Cracolândia", its main objective is to relationally grasp the various territories occupied by most marginalized people of the city, highlighting resonances and crossings produced by contemporary control devices which, in multiple aspects, combine: punishment, repression and control; health care, assistance and care. In this end, betting on a sharp porosity among multiple territories of the city, it is relevant to prospect prisons position in contemporary urban experience.