“Ajude o BOPE a Ajudar Você”: uma etnografia sobre a gestão da proximidade e da participação política dos moradores de favelas no contexto de pacificação

Abstract

This ethnography consists in the analysis of the relations established between the police and the residents of favelas during the implementation of the "pacification" policy and the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) in two groups of favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Through the discourse of "pacification", the State promised "a new era of peace", putting the need for relations of "collaboration" and "closeness" between the residents of favelas and the police. This research aimed to understand the social situations involved in the events of political participation carried out in the context of the "pacification", with special attention to the processes, actions and assumptions that permeated the establishment of proximity between the two sides, the police and favela residents. This study is to analyze the tensions, conflicts and challenges contained in the phrase "Help BOPE to Help You", as the motto jargon used by the police to establish a new type of relationship. At the same time, it analyzes the tensions and conflicts arose from police intervention in associative life of a favela with UPP. These social situations allow the broader context to be taken analytically, as well as the relations between the groups, the values and contradictory motives that lead them to participate in the different events promoted by the "pacification" policy, which culminates in the implementation of the UPP. It is worth mentioning that for the development of this research I opted to approach my ambiguous insertion in the field, as local manager of Social UPP and as a researcher.