ON DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE OF POLICE BRUTALITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
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From an ethnography performed at a police office in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, the Homicide Division, I will present how objects and symbols were triggered to reinforce positions of power and masculinity values associated with virility and the use of force. I develop an approach that considers my experience as an anthropologist in the field and my position as a black woman, with civil police officers as interlocutors. My goal is to discuss how state agents act by “violence”, strengthening the analysis of state control mechanisms and social markers of difference, and thus demonstrate an interpretation of practices and discourses based on morals and sensibilities, which allow reflection on the intersection of structural positions that unequally classify and treat racialized subjects.
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