"A Cama é nossa casa": uma análise antropológica sobre o encarceramento feminino de/para mulheres em uma instituição prisional no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

O The study seeks to reflect on some of the nuances, among so many existing ones, that surround female imprisonment in Brazil, based on field research conducted at a prison institution located in the state of mato grosso do sul. Female imprisonment in Brazil and also in mato Grosso do Sul, through which the current mechanisms of incarceration in the country were problematized. In addition, through a fieldwork with the institution, we sought to think about the existing power relations and their incidence on those that are considered the targets of the disciplinary regime: "girls" prey. The quest for women's production of "resocialization" in the ways desired by prison politics has made it possible to perceive the instituti on-prison in a two-way street: as a space for the production of disciplined bodies, but also at the same time (I dare say even ) as a space of production of networks, affections, resistances and assemblages. Thus, the relations of the "girls" trapped overflow the walls and disciplines and reaffirm their links with those who are outside the walls and their engagements with other forms of self-constitution. Without ignoring the importance of statistical data, this ethnography sought to go even further by looking at subjects of "flesh, bone and blood" and who do not conform to or summarize themselves to the police / policies of massification. When going through the different spaces of the institution, contact was sought with a female that is not encompassed by the institutional look / discourse. After all, what generic women are these statistics? The statements of the imprisoned "girls" and some of the institution's public agents point to the possibility of other questions and other analyzes. using an anthropological perspective, anchored in Foucauldian reflections, worried with the notion of discourse as a practice, without losing sight of the capacity for resistance and agency of the subjects, I hope I have contributed to thinking that if prisons are spaces where relations of power and exclusion are produced and produced, for example, from prison work, galleries where one lives in prison, family visits by professionals and actors in prison daily life, and at the same time and a place where constitute practices and discourses are formed.