"O que foi que esse menino fez meu Deus?": reflexões sobre linchamentos na Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza (2010-2018)

Abstract

Considered as a cathartic form to break the violence circle, reestablish the social order and pacify, even temporally, the anguish and the anxieties that involves our community, the lynching is a rhizome of the modernity that signalize the destructive potential and purifier that a rite can assume on human sociability. In the same way, this work makes clear my effort to get in touch with a possible understanding of the reality of lynching in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza between 2010-2018. While I am searching violence, I start to realize how I am a subject subjected in this eugenic project denominated Brazilian colony. The studied period stands out by the intensification of violent sociability because of the homicide levels, robbery and theft, territorial disputes between gangs, etc., establishing a sacrificial crisis in this region, which tends to result in a cathartic revival. According to my analysis of the content on local virtual news from Ceará: Ascefort, Aracati Notícias, Blog do Fernando Ribeiro, Diário do Nordeste, G1 Ceará, O Povo, Portal Interbuss, Tribuna do Ceará e TV Diário; I could see recurring characteristics of the lynching that were reported by the media during the period studied. As a result of the reflections developed during this master thesis, I had the understanding that the lynching is not a sign of the absence of State institutions, impunity or insecurity, but it is included in the context of State politics that administers, organizes and controls affection, life and death of humanity as a species, selectively reaching certain subjects.