Necropolitics and the banalization of death in the favelas
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public security, police lethality, structural racism, violence, territorial controlAbstract
This editorial investigates how lethal state operations (exemplified by the October 28 massacre) express an institutionalized necropolitics in Brazil, in which those in power decide who lives and who dies. It analyzes the normalization of this selective extermination of racialized bodies, especially in the peripheries, sustained by structural racism. The text questions the official justification for these actions (combating organized crime), arguing that the real purpose is territorial control through violence. In addition, it discusses the inadequacy of traditional criminal guarantees in the face of military technologies applied internally. Finally, it highlights the critical role of IBCCRIM, which denounces these practices and calls for inclusive policies instead of the regulation of death.
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