O que não tem governo: estudo sobre linchamentos.

Abstract

In this work one has the intention of discussing the relationship between the Modernity and the search for instituting the legitimate use of violence by State practices. Starting from the point of view according to that it is impossible the socially built reality in materializing the desire for order, welfare, progress and the general will ideal, one approaches the lynchings case and we light them as an example of the resilient, ryzomatic wish for power. Therefore, when we map different modern governability techniques we put into question the Uno Paradigm, trying to associate the recurrent relation between the desire of being uno and chaos. We also made a critic to the said scientific object invention and to the methodological corollary which wants to make us able to discover, analyze and present scientific results. Analyzing press mass media in Paraíba, from 2001 until 2010, we found out 34 lynching cases. We observed that there is an ideal type of victim , who is a man between 20 and 40 years old, sexual offender or robbery or traffic accident impetrator. Lynchings happen when there are crimes against persons or properties and seldom are they punished. Lynchings point out to a relationship among Religion, State and Society, and they show that we lynch life considered impure and that they have the social function of avoiding increasing violence.