Banca de DEFESA: ANTÔNIO ISMAEL DA SILVA LIMA

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STUDENT : ANTÔNIO ISMAEL DA SILVA LIMA
DATE: 06/03/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Campus Dom Bosco Sala 1.49
TITLE:

Necropolitics and precariousness in drought concentration camps in Ceará

KEY WORDS:

biopolitics; concentration camps; precariousness; drought; necropolitics

PAGES: 115
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUMMARY:

Among the most controversial and criminal policies to combat droughts promoted by the State of Ceará, Brazil, this work discusses the creation, implementation, and expansion of concentration camps, especially the Patu concentration camp in the municipality of Senador Pompeu, which aimed to confine and control refugees during three prolonged drought periods in our state history: 1877, 1915, and 1932. Placed within the context of profound denial of life, which intensively employs mechanisms of control and body management, we seek to understand the phenomenon through the framework of bionecropolitics. This framework recognizes necropolitics as the manifestation of the logic of power in Western societies, as proposed by Achille Mbembe. We will engage with the analyses promoted by the Cameroonian philosopher using his own sources. Consequently, our work will be informed by the political thought of figures such as Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Giorgio Agamben. The latter is given a prominent space in the second chapter to aid our dialogue with other thinkers. Agamben's biopolitical reflections lead us more directly to Mbembe's thoughts in the third chapter. This study concludes by identifying the relationships that draw necropolitics close to the issue of precarity in Judith Butler's work, understanding precariousness as a submission to the risks of death power produced by necropower. Precariousness results from the action of mechanisms that capture and politicize human existence inherent in necropolitics, which determines the value and devaluation of lives, separating them through racialization into those that deserve to live and those that deserve to die. At the end of our study, by focusing on the issue of managing grief, we conclude that necropolitics, more than enabling the death of the biological body and the fabrication of killable lives, also acts to erase these lives even after their physical death, creating lethal conditions for certain body parts of the stratagems of power in the history of Western politics.

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