TOPOGRAPHIES OF VIOLENCE: NECROPOWER AND SPATIAL GOVERNMENTALITY IN SAO PAULO

Authors

  • Jaime Amparo Alves

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2011.0022.0006

Keywords:

morbid-mortality, urban geography, violence, race and necropolitics

Abstract

Based on analysis of the distribution of violent deaths in the urban space of the municipality of São Paulo between 2003 and 2008, the article suggests that there is a morbid patterns of spatial governance that elects specific urban geographies and specific bodies as the main target if control and production of fear. Based on Foucault’s concepts of governmentality and Achilles Mbembe’s concept of necropower, the work also suggests that the concentration of death in predominately black neighborhoods constitutes a state-sponsored necropolitic. Such politic of death is expressed in the state omission and/or its complicity with the morbid patterns of racial relations in Brazil.

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Author Biography

  • Jaime Amparo Alves
    Antropologia Social, Center for African and African American Studies/ University of Texas, at Austin

Published

2011-11-20

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Artigos

How to Cite

Alves, J. A. (2011). TOPOGRAPHIES OF VIOLENCE: NECROPOWER AND SPATIAL GOVERNMENTALITY IN SAO PAULO. Revista Do Departamento De Geografia, 22, 108-134. https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2011.0022.0006