Devices of Street Security and Justice: Other Questions about Robberies, Vigilantism and Lynching
Keywords:
security, justice, robbery, power devices, lynchingAbstract
Based on two ethnographic notes on events in Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil), the article proposes the problematization of collective assemblages against small robberies and larcenies. Dialoguing with studies on the management of illegalisms and vigilantism, the analysis distances itself from the terms established by the studies of lynching in Brazil, especially from the concept of popular justice and from the state-centric segmentarity it presupposes. The authors point out the importance of the indiscernibility between the state and non-state for the functioning of street security and justice devices and for the production of a punitive continuum between streets and prisons.Published
2019-09-24
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