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| Author(s): |
Fábio Mallart
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2019-08-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Vera da Silva Telles;
Antonio Carlos Rafael Barbosa;
Manuela Ivone Paredes Pereira da Cunha;
Adriana de Resende Barreto Vianna
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| Advisor: | Vera da Silva Telles |
| Abstract | |
This thesis, based on ethnographic research carried out in varied institutional spaces as well as in urban areas of São Paulo, explores circulations and confinements to which certain populations are submitted, highlighting the resonances between different territories of the contemporary city. In order to do so, lifelines crossing shelter homes for children and teenagers, low-income peripheries, urban areas such as the so-called cracolândia (crackland), prisons, confinement units of the CASA Foundation, Psychosocial Care Centers, asylums, recovery centers, among many other places and state apparatuses, are mobilized. In these connections, they trace a continuum between punishment, repression and control; health, assistance and care. From this angle, the image of an archipelago and its multiple islands - open, porous and resounding - emerge on the horizon. Towards this direction, we aim at stretching the considerations regarding the porosity of prison, seeking to apprehend it from its crossings and fragmentations. On the one hand, while taking studies that demonstrated the potentiality of thinking low-income peripheral neighborhoods in analytical continuity to prisons as an entry point, this thesis is aimed at amplifying this argument, evidencing the prison machinery as only one of the cogs inside a vast circuit; a perspective which enables not only analytical but also political shifts. Considering that prisons, together with asylums, form the basis of the prism through which this archipelago is glimpsed, a detailed approach of the channels and ducts connecting them is necessary; from one side to other; their technologies, practices, populations and repertoires. On the other hand, after following flows that implode walls, it is about to relaunch the discussion about the porosity within the walls of prison, and in every occurrence of the word \"prison\", this reflection can be extended to other institutions of control such as asylums. It must be borne in mind that prison is broken down into various space times castigos, seguros, wards, regimes of observation which distribute bodies, tortures, water, light, oxygen and psychotropic drugs in a defined manner. At this point, we are confronted with the subterranean: spaces concealed by a certain degree of secrecy, sometimes hidden behind steel plates, wards or double-walls. Places of suppression and excess, where men and women remain half-dead, half-living; speechless through indecipherable or unfinished words , reflecting the effects of a languishing policy, where drooling is the best image portraying this reality. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/02165-2 - Punishment, imprisonment and medicalization: management techniques of undesirable and dangerous bodies |
| Grantee: | Fábio Mallart Moreira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |