Linchamentos e silenciamentos: uma análise sobre os justiçamentos e os meios de comunicação no Mato Grosso do Sul (2012-2015)

Abstract

The present study proposes to build a sociological narrative that allows analyze the lynchings in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. For this, we started searching for records of lynching in two regional mass media, which are newspaper Correio do Estado and the electronic media Campo Grande News, and also by visiting Police Departments to analyze police reports and judicial process concerning the time lapse between 2012 to 2015. With this material and considering the inexistence of researches about this subject in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, we intent to brighten the object of this study and its victims, the lynched, and the ones that who have been silenced by the regional news media. The most important part of this study is in the final chapter, whereas the understanding of the phenomenon matter in two previous steps. The first chapter consists in a bibliographic review about lynching that introduce the necessary theoretical knowledge apprehension. Inevitably, this approach referred to the discussion about its conceptual ambiguity that reflects acts that sometimes symbolize justice, sometimes violence and punishment. Also in the first chapter, we comment about two cultural elements that in our opinion influence the representation of lynchings in the State: the incompleteness of citizenship/ democracy and the constancy of the body in the violent and punitive practices. The second chapter refers to a summary discussion about the notion of representation, which guides the qualitative analysis made. In the final part, we present the collected datas, seeking to understand the phenomenon, its characteristics and representations, with special focus on the figure of the lynched.