"Donos da vida e da morte" : relações de poder, conflitos e gestão da morte nas narrativas da ADPF 635

Abstract

Since the end of the 20th century, Rio de Janeiro has stood out in debates about public security due to the escalation of police violence and the militarization of the favelas, deepening racial and social inequalities. Police operations are constantly marked by high lethality, thus generating historical demands for accountability and structural changes. Arising from the accumulation of historical struggles, the Action of Noncompliance with a Fundamental Precept (ADPF) 635, known as the “ADPF of the Favelas”, emerged as an attempt to respond to these issues, driven by the mobilization of social movements and human rights entities in search of a reduction in state violence and the promotion of rights. These movements and actions allow the narratives in the lawsuit to reveal complex social dynamics, such as the ways in which the politics of death operate in Rio de Janeiro. Thus, the object of this research is the narratives present in the ADPF das Favelas and aims to make an analytical effort to make the gears of death management policies in Rio's favelas intelligible from the transits and movements present in ADPF 635. In order to achieve this goal, my main aim is to reflect on a) the conflicts and power relations that make up the narratives woven into the records of ADPF 635 and b) the modes of governability, discipline, control, tutelage and extermination that govern the militarized daily life of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, controlling daily life and obliterating life. Once I stopped looking through the more than 900 petitions, orders, decisions, rulings, appeals and evidence that currently make up the ADPF of the Favelas and started looking analytically at those documents, I became attentive to the conflicts and power relations that constitute the politics of enmity and highlight the gears of the racialized management of death in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.