Como falar de violência na periferia? O Fórum Grita Baixada e os discursos sobre a segurança pública na Baixada Fluminense

Abstract

The Baixada Fluminense has historically experienced processes of violence, from death squads to the activities of criminal factions involved in drug trafficking and militias in the region. Throughout history, the population has lived with several structural problems, in addition to violence given the choices of the State in public security policy and the inequalities that mark the territory, especially when we examine and compare the Baixada with the city of Rio de Janeiro. In view of this, movements, collectives and organizations build urban struggles in this region in defense of rights and in the fight against inequalities, especially the Fórum Grita Baixada. The forum was born as a social movement and over the years it has undergone “metamorphoses”, with changes in its discourses and ways of acting. From this example, it is possible to identify the changes in the way of debating violence in the region, in view of the changes in the dynamics of violence, in politics and in the profile of civil society organizations in the Baixada Fluminense at the beginning of the 21st century.