Dispositivos de Mobilidade: Estética, precariedade e legibilidade no marco de dez anos da ‘favela modelo’

Abstract

This dissertation ethnographically presents social interactions and urban dynamics in favela Santa Marta/RJ between years 2015 and 2018. Within ten years after its beginning, local perceptions about the finishing of the “pacification” project in the field of Public Security are debated from the favela recognized in media and institutional narratives as the “model favela” of the Pacifying Police Units. The main theoretical support is a cross between the “mobilities turn” and Foucault's analytical instruments - in theoretical continuities through the concepts of necropolitics and the margins of the State. The notion of mobility devices characterizes a heterogeneous intersection between flows and points of support constituting social life that simultaneously produce and express socio-political conditions and significant dimensions determined around asymmetries of power and relational (i)mobility. In this sense, the construction of this work is motivated around a central question: "What are the possibilities of defining interruptions, permanencies and continuities related to the" pacification" of favela Santa Marta based on an analytical observation between mobility devices?" The main argument is that the development of notions of aesthetic, precariousness and legibility devices can be analytical axes that, when applied to certain social realities, function as analytical keys to understand relationships between urban flows and the maintenance of the social and symbolic order of a given territory. To conduct this socio-ethnographic and multi-situated investigation, “mobile” methodological resources were used in association with conventional techniques and procedures. Among them, the comparative analysis of promotional, informative and media material related to the object of the research and the mobile observation of local subjects in the selected territory.