A morte pela soberania: as violências e violações do Estado como legados da colonização

Abstract

This article intends to bring a understanding about the State that was established near to what Hobbes has theorized, whose bases were exclusionary practices toward lives and identities in order to ensure the maintenance of its own sovereignty. Therefore, the concept of necropolitcs is mobilized to analyze these practices linked to the maintenance of sovereignty, whose core consists in the decision about the life and death of its citizens according to the interests and purposes of the State. At the basis of this study is the argument that an idea of national hegemony, as a homogeneous identity, is imposed, killing any chance of self-determination that could undermine sovereignty or highlight alternatives of social configurations. From the empirical point of view, this work argues that such logic of power is still applied contemporaneously in Rio de Janeiro with homogenizing and exclusionary policies conditioning the individuals living in favelas to a chaotic routine that violates bodies and lives and limits the educational development of children and adolescents that the State should protect and represent.