The purpose of this article is to trace the paths of “destruction” of the Praia de Iracema, in Fortaleza, which have been documented from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It is inspired on my own ethnographic study conducted between 2015 and 2017 with transnational missionary projects that confront “sexual crimes” in Fortaleza. The article examines the dual process of selective use of scientific epistemology and the brutal crushing of other epistemologies in their relation with the recurring endings of the Praia de Iracema. Crossing knowledge from anthropology, geology, history, politics, and physics, I sought to perceive how the entanglements of agencies between humans and non-humans generate the eternal return of the Praia de Iracema, bringing to light the irrational rationalities of humanist times.
Resumo: O artigo discute os usos das categorias “liberdade” e “escravidão” em ações evangélicas de enfrentamento ao tráfico de pessoas. A partir da pesquisa etnográfica conduzida entre 2014 e 2017 junto a grupos religiosos transnacionais em Fortaleza, argumenta que as estratégias de publicização missionárias são construídas sobre os trânsitos entre os domínios doméstico e público, ritual e cotidiano, religioso e secular. O sucesso de missionárias ao realizar esses trânsitos implica a leitura do sofrimento marcado por desigualdades de gênero como expressão de “liberdade”, enquanto outras formas dessas desigualdades seriam evidência da “escravidão” das supostas “vítimas”.
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