Racism State and tanathopolitics: reflections on the youth and the law

• Autor(a) principal: Scisleski, Andrea Cristina Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: da Silva, Jhon Lennon Caldeira, Galeano, Giovana Barbieri, Bruno, Bruna Soares, dos Santos, Suyanne Nayara
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/5100
• topic: public policies; youth in conflict with the law; state racism; thanatopolitics; políticas públicas; jovens em conflito com a lei; racismo de Estado; tanatopolítica; Jovens em Conflito com a Lei

This article presents a study on public policies directed at young people in conflict with the law, from a research in the context of Campo Grande/MS/Brazil, taking as operators of analysis the concepts of state racism and tanatopolítica, from the Michel Foucault’s and Giorgio Agamben’s theories, respectively. This paper discusses how public policies have been aimed at these young people, by practices that implement these policies and also by their failures, when they expose this population out from the legal protection. The debate concerns a reflexion on the condition the youth are faced by legal and political actions that usually frame them in terms of experiencing social exclusion. Finally, this study indicates a way of managing not only the life, but also the death of these young people, which keeps them in a situation of marginality warded by the state.