Cracolândia, racismo de estado e neoliberalismo: uma abordagem foucaultiana

Abstract

This work had as an immediate objective to understand to what extent State Racism manifested itself in Cracolândia located in the Center of São Paulo. It was analyzed the function of crack users within Biopolitics and how the compulsory hospitalization institute was used as an instrument of social hygiene.In addition, a relationship of interdependence between the Security Mechanisms, the Biopolitical System and State Racism was evidenced, since it was verified the application of a technique capable of assassinating a certain social group, with the justification of constituting itself as a risk to the good functioning of society, since it is considered the manifestation of the most repulsive elements within the society.It was a monograph, coming from a bibliographical research of description of the doctrinal positions on the proposed subject. To fulfill this purpose, some sources of information were used, especially books, scientific articles and journalistic articles. In this research, it was analyzed how the Cracolândia can be studied starting from a biopolitical context. Then, it was investigated how the security, based on the culture of the fear was used as pillar to move neoliberal conducts was present from the analysis of the concept of scapegoats presented by Jock Young and of the presentation of the neoliberal governmentalality elaborated by Michel Foucault.Finally, State Racism was demonstrated as an application of a social sanitation of crack users in the city of São Paulo, executed through the exclusionary discourses proposed by neoliberal rulers and truculent police actions.