Viver nas margens: gênero, crime e regulação de conflitos

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is opening a dialogue between gender, popular culture , and crime. The rationale guiding this work are techniques of conflict and managing violence used as forms of interaction having sexual images (STRATHERN, 2006) analyzed in displays of force (MACHADO DA SILVA, 2008) among residents and drug traffickers in the Nova Holanda favela, in the Maré community- Rio de Janeiro. The research results on the universe of Funk gangs prowess and the pacification of the Red Command drug group are analyzed using ethnographical accounts and trajectories that I was able to collect because of my experience as a native resident of this favela. I will argue that this process achieves a discursive expansion of crime (FELTRAN, 2006) producing physical and moral disturbances (DUARTE, 1987) - expressed by the emic category neurosis . The prohibited Funk performances reveal distinct techniques among each other - affirmative, offensive, and defensive - part of a widened spectrum of representations articulated by a patriarchal grammar of war and peace responsible for the opposition between masculine and feminine worlds. From this normativizing context the male subject , mistress , and the faithful wife are performed as popular personae of valor that update the historical mediation between the hustler and the bandit (MISSE, 1999). In these situations as they are experienced, the gender idiom permits exploring the production of borderlines between the use of force and the regulation of living together, indicating variable nexuses as to how conflicts are processed, whether by nullifying them, mediation, and/or explication.