“Bangu à moda Babel?” Um ensaio sobre os jogos de Violência e Educação

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the relationship between violence and education in the peripheral neighborhood of Bangu. The dissertation presents how the Babel myth, and its subsequent literary construction, culminated in a contemporary reproduction of the original urban chaos, fostering analogies with other places labeled as "real." This research was only made possible through a literary review of the history of Bangu. In other words, the work uses the neighborhood’s genealogy as an analytical point for research production, thus aiming to reflect on how urban construction has reverberated on the local citizen from the past, present, and (perhaps) future. Therefore, the construction of a primary violence toward the area originates in its architectural organization, which resonates in ways of inhabiting the space, whether in leisure or labor. The sense of education emerges when, from the streets, resistances to these violences arise as points of confrontation against the normalizations imposed by the State, such as cultural productions and human relations.