Banca de DEFESA: TIAGO FERREIRA DA SILVA

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DISCENTE : TIAGO FERREIRA DA SILVA
DATA : 01/11/2019
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala 106 da Superintendência de Tecnologia da Informação (STI) - Campus Ondina
TÍTULO:

Subjective configurations of police practices and survival strategies of black youth in a city of Bahia

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Black youth; subjectivity theory; military police; necropolitics; structural racism.

PÁGINAS: 141
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

The present study was developed based on my personal, academic and professional experiences as a social psychologist who directly deals with the theme of racism and its psychosocial effects on people of African descent in Brazil. Its main objective was to understand the subjective configurations related to police practices, expressed by black youth living in disenfranchised communities in a city of the state of Bahia. Departing from a cultural-historical approach to the concept of subjectivity, the research drew on the Qualitative Epistemology of Cuban theorist Fernando Gonzales Rey. According to Gonzales Rey, the main purpose of the study of subjectivity is to produce knowledge about the ways subjective meanings are produced and organized in the context of the social spaces in which social and individual subjectivities are mutually constructed and expressed. Our theoretical-methodological approach consisted on a constructive-interpretative method of information production based on the use of group and individual instruments. Initially, we conducted a workshop and a “conversational circle” with young adults (both male and female), mostly black, aged between 18 and 29. The activities took place at the headquarters of a social program linked to the Justice and Human Rights Secretariat of a city in the state of Bahia. We then selected two of the participants to take part in the case studies: two young black males aged 22 and 29. The case studies took place between May and November of 2018. The information produced was analyzed through the lenses of Gonzales Rey’s Subjectivity Theory in articulation to other areas of knowledge, particularly specialized in race relations. The information indicates that the subjective configurations of our subjects, in regards to the Military Police and their practices, are constituted by subjective meanings related to an understanding of this institution as a violent organization, racially biased, and whose actions often disrespect the basic rights of the members of the communities in which our subjects reside. The study also indicates subjective meanings related to feelings of distrust, insecurity and fear due to the fact that police officers are generally not held responsible by any institution for such behavior. Additionally, the young black men who can survive the high death expectations rates that constitutes the realities of those communities, have to deal with a social perception that regards them as potential criminals, thus being forced to create strategies to avoid or circumvent encounters with the police. Our study demonstrates that the living experiences of these black youth are marked by the tensions involved in the belonging to a social group to which a set of detrimental racial meanings are attached—in opposition to the normativity experienced by individuals that are socially perceived as white—, as well as by complex subjective processes produced by the conflict of being victims of racism at the hands of police officers who are also black, thus re-updating historical processes that continue to reverberate in their racialized subjectivities and which are based on the structural racism and necropolitical system through which Brazilian society has been structured. With this study, we hope to reinforce the importance of adopting a racialized perspective in Cultural-Historical Psychology research, which should be sensitive not only to the subjective processes of black populations but of society in general.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 2313663 - MONICA LIMA DE JESUS
Externo à Instituição - LIA VAINER SCHUCMAN - UFSC
Externo à Instituição - CARLOS ALBERTO SANTOS DE PAULO - UFRB