Violence and punishment in discourse: the communication of the "bullet representatives"

• Grant number: 19/11114-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2019
• End date: July 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Marcos César Alvarez
• Grantee: Pedro Rolo Benetti
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07923-7 - Center of the Study of Violence - NEV/USP, AP.CEPID

Abstract

The present research intends to investigate the main arguments mobilized by politicians that characterize their intervention in the public space from narratives anchored in the repression or the use of violence as mechanisms to solve social conflicts. Through their manifestations in social networks during the 2018 electoral campaign, the main arguments that organize them will be mapped out, seeking approximations and tensions between the various representatives of the so-called bullet counter. Based on the seventy parliamentarians identified by Diap as belonging to this group, will be observed the profiles of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, tools of direct communication more used by the politicians in campaign in the last elections. These sources allow us to map which are the terms used with the greatest recurrence, as well as the central arguments and priorities of the campaign, contributing to the construction of a framework that helps to understand the ways in which a punitive culture is sustained and expands in Brazil. The premise here is that acts of violence, particularly those committed by agents of the State, do not only express relations of physical force, but also manifest a set of authorizations and incentives organized symbolically, apt to be apprehended in discourse. It is on this terrain that the present research intends to focus.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GARCIA-SANCHEZ, EFRAIN; BENETTI, PEDRO ROLO; HIGA, GUSTAVO LUCAS; ALVAREZ, MARCOS CESAR; GOMEZ-NIETO, ERICK. Political discourses, ideologies, and online coalitions in the Brazilian Congress on Twitter during 2019. NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, JUN 2021. (13/07923-7, 19/11114-3, 19/10560-0, 19/10046-4)

GARCIA-SANCHEZ, EFRAIN; BENETTI, PEDRO ROLO; HIGA, GUSTAVO LUCAS; ALVAREZ, MARCOS CESAR; GOMEZ-NIETO, ERICK. Political discourses, ideologies, and online coalitions in the Brazilian Congress on Twitter during 2019. NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, v. 25, n. 5, p. 23-pg., 2021-06-04. (19/10560-0, 19/10046-4, 19/11114-3, 13/07923-7)