Authoritarianism and war on drugs: the violence of structural and religious racism

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Andréa Pires
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lima, Rita de Cássia Cavaldante, Ferrugem, Daniela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Katálysis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/75331

This article gets drug policies as an analysis point on governmental rationality that reinforces authoritarian responses to the capital crisis. This response in a period of neoliberalism and neoconservatism is selective and requires to apprehend two components of structural racism - institutional and religious racism that are updated in drug policy. The President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment indicated a general crisis of authority that strengthened the neo-Pentecostal rise in the organization of the popular masses in Brazil in favor of an openly anti-democratic necro economic and necropolitical project. With critical authors, the materialized dispute is retrieved with the use of the punitive force of the State and with the fundamentalist action of neo-Pentecostal segments. We point out that within the neoliberal penal State, conservatism, racism and class hatred reinforce control mechanisms justified by the war on drugs, focusing on the bodies and any trace of life of blacks and the poor people.