The Prohibition of Violence: The Violent Prohibition of Ultras, a study towards the relation of the State to Gaviões da Fiel during the 1990 decade on the Prohibition Era

• Grant number: 24/05128-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Carlos de Almeida Toledo
• Grantee: João Ryoki Gutierrez Inoue
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/20601-3 - São Paulo urbanization process and the consolidation of football: A transnational studie prospect, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

The present proposition has the purpose to investigate the relation between State violence and the Ultra violence deriving out of the 1990 decade. The relation between the two actors, Ultras and the State, will be draw by the Grêmio Gaviões da Fiel Torcida Força Independente. The period is known as Era das proibições (The prohibition Era) (Especial Acervo Tia Geni: As proibições, 2023) and has as fundamental characteristics the State's endeavor on the prohibition of Ultras attend to soccer matches in São Paulo city. The process hatches by the tragic death of Rodrigo de Gásperi, only 13 years old, in 1992. The outcome, from the State, is the promulgation of the Estatuto do Torcedor (Fan's Statue), that comprehends the juridification of State's control on Ultras. Looking to understand the problematic relation between this two actors, we adopted as a method the concept of territoriality of Raffestin (1993) from the understanding that, the State, such as Gaviões da Fiel are syntagmatic actors. Although, we recognize that Raffestin (1993) understand this relation as a moment, we are interested invest in the understanding of these actors inserted in a process, in these way, we articulate the method with authors that are aware to the categorial formations that are interesting to us to understand the problem. From Odette Seabra's (2003;2008) researchers about the neighbourhood dissolutions and the imposition of the abstract labor time, we see as a possibility to deepen the soccer studies, specifically, the transformation of the neighbourhood fan's on Utlras. With Seabra, the propositions made by Gaudemar (1997) about labor's mobility and the disciplining of workers to labor show themselves as fundamentals to the understanding of the process of transformation of these practices in function of the urbanization process.