LAW, MANIFESTATION AND VIOLENCE: READINGS OF THE BRAZILIAN PROTESTS OF JUNE 2013

• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, José Antonio Rego
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Teorias da Democracia e Direitos Políticos
• Texto Completo: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistateoriasdemocracia/article/view/755
• topic: Law; Violence; Brazil; June of 2013; Direito; Violência; Manifestações; Junho de 2013

In this paper, we will begin by presenting a certain critique of violence, introduced by Walter Benjamin in Critique of Violence and developed/deconstructed by Jacques Derrida in Force of Law. We will present the concepts involved in this criticism, such as those of violence that founds law and violence that maintains law, legal violence and anomic violence, pure means, manifestation, readability and event. Departing from those concepts, we will then go into a theoretical discussion promoted by some Brazilian intellectuals and academics, especially in the compilation of articles titled Rebel Cities: Passe livre and the protests that took over the streets of Brazil. Some of the questions dealt with are: what it means to interpret a manifestation; what the role of theory is in the face of those phenomena; how a violence from the streets can transform law; how to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate violence; etc.