Violência embaraçada e democracia: uma crítica decolonial

Abstract

This research aims to present a critical analysis of violence and democracy in Brazil, with structural racism and colonialities as the central axis of analysis. To this end, it seeks to study how the colonization process in the region had an impact on the public security model and on violence. We will seek to understand, taking into account historical processes, how modernity may have influenced the consolidation of democracy and its complexities, investigating the elements that contribute to the understanding of violence and socio-racial relations built from the emergence of citizenship. The concept of embarrassed violence will be articulated to refer to the Brazilian specificity of structural violence that has been introduced and changed continuously since colonization. The methodology of qualitative analysis of data already produced and publicly available regarding violence and crime in Latin America, Brazil and specifically in Rio de Janeiro will be used, as well as the legislative documentary analysis of the public security decrees of the State of Rio of January. We will discuss the Pacifying Police Units and their impacts since their implementation, calling attention to lethal police violence and the collective solutions adopted by the Baixada Fluminense community through the Right to Memory and Racial Justice Institute, to counter the violence suffered and the character of epistemic disobedience that the organization contains, showing possible ways of decolonization.