Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SAMYA KATIANE MARTINS PINHEIRO

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STUDENT : SAMYA KATIANE MARTINS PINHEIRO
DATE: 24/04/2023
TIME: 10:30
LOCAL: Natal-RN
TITLE:

DEATH POLICY: the “war on drugs” and the ideological foundations of the black genocide in Brazil

 

KEY WORDS:

“war on drugs”, prohibitionism, death policy, and structural racism

PAGES: 149
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos do Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

The study’s object is to discuss the ideological foundations that permeate the prohibitionist policy on “drugs” in Brazil. The investigation process will start from the bibliographic review and document analysis, with a quantitative and qualitative focus, based on a perspective of totality in the apprehension of social relations that will contribute to a critical reflection of the investigated reality. We aimed to analyze the relationship between the historical use of psychoactive substances and prohibitionism as an expression of structural racism in Brazil. Therefore, our historical framework will be the period of capital's structural crisis, without losing sight of the historical perspective and the consequences of more than three centuries of a slave-owning regime in the country, which results up to the present in a pseudo freedom and equality that leads the black population to fight for its own survival. From a decolonial perspective, we seek to apprehend the post-abolition period in Brazil and show that enslaved African people moved from the period of slavery to a historical process of genocide, which takes place through structural racism that is permeated by legal, political, economic, social and ideological dimensions. For that reason, despite the prohibitionist policy having its apex in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, we identify that the origins of prohibitionism in Brazil are related to cultural and historical genocide, in view of the ancestral use of psychoactive substances by native people. Thus, the ideological foundations that penetrate prohibitionism in Brazil have their roots in structural racism, historically being a tool of control over black and indigenous bodies and cultures. What we call the politics of death is expressed in the erasure of black culture, through prohibition, mass incarceration and structural racism elucidated in the data of reality that denote the social inequality inherent in the capitalist system. In addition to the production of death, either through the State's repressive apparatus, or through the absence of its intervention, above all, in the ultraneoliberal context. Thus, the imperialist pretext of the “war on drugs” is used to combat illicit drug trafficking as a subterfuge of necropolitics and its reproduction in Latin America. Therefore, since the beginning of the Brazilian socio-historical formation, they profit from the exploitation of labor, expropriate rights and lead the black and indigenous population to death.

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