A Promessa de segurança e o espectro da monstruosidade

Abstract

In recent decades, we can observe a process of centralization of discourses related to security. Such centrality seems to feed on the spectre of monstrosity and a movement to frame racialized, poor and subalternized peoples as monsters, justifying the use of the most diverse forms of violence against these groups. The figure of the monster operates, on the one hand, as a threat that serves as an argument for the hardening of security policies, and, on the other, as a ghost that haunts those who, in the name of security, commit atrocious violence.