Based on ethnographic and documentary material, this article analyzes the social construction of political disappearance in Brazil. It argues that less than a phenomenon to be captured from reality, it is a category produced in and a producer of a social field, a point of convergence of debates and actions of actors and institutions. The objective is to show the discourses that function as truths about the phenomenon in Brazil, as well as the methods, procedures, forums and disputes by which they are sanctioned as such. It also addresses the intrinsic relation of this process with the production of political communities by focusing on the discourse of the movement of families of the killed and disappeared political actors. In conclusion, it points to some social implications that result from delimiting what is politically relevant violence.
This article analyzes transnational migrations triggered by the dictatorships in Argentina (1976-1983) and Brazil (1964-1985), with attention to the representations associated to exile in these countries and in the Latin American context of the second half of the 20th century. The empirical data used are the memories narrated by Argentines who took exile in Brazil and by Brazilians exiled in Mozambique. By exploring the plurality of meanings that these authors attribute to their migratory experiences, we seek to understand how different political conjunctures in the countries of origin and destination implied varied forms of living and understanding exile. In a comparative perspective, the case studies also explore how the experience of exile was forged not only in relation to specific national and migratory contexts but also in relation to transnational social fields.
O presente artigo reconstrói as principais redes sociais que levaram brasileiros exilados da ditadura civil-militar (1964-1985) a se tornarem cooperantes na República Popular de Moçambique a partir de 1975. Com base em entrevistas realizadas com alguns deles, pretendo compreender as premissas da relação estabelecida entre os agentes sociais envolvidos nesse processo migratório. As narrativas dos entrevistados atribuem relevância ao contexto histórico de polarização política da Guerra Fria, quando a "esquerda internacional" constituía um campo simbólico e de relações sociais ao qual os entrevistados afirmam terem pertencido. Defendo que este entendimento, estruturado sobre a ideia de militância, forja entre eles uma leitura comum do passado e de suas próprias trajetórias. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: narrativa, migração, política, Guerra Fria. Militant trajectories: from Brazil to Mozambique through international left-wing networks This paper retraces the main social networks that led Brazilian exiles from the civilian-military dictatorship (1964-1985) to became "cooperants"-development volunteers-in the People's Republic of Mozambique after 1975. Based on interviews with some of those exiles, I intend to understand the underlying principles of the relationships established by the social agents involved in this migration process. Their narratives assign major relevance to the historical context of Cold War political polarization, as the "international left wing" was a symbolic and social relations' field to which the respondents claim to have belonged. I argue that this understanding, structured upon the idea of militancy, generates among the exiles a common view of the past and of their own trajectories.
This article analyses the management of bodies in Brazil within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its objective is to examine how the confluence of underreporting, inequality and alterations in the forms of classifying and managing bodies has produced a political practice that aims at the mass infection of the living and the quick disposal of the dead. We first present the factors involved in the process of underreporting of the disease and its effects on state registration and regulation of bodies. Our analysis then turns to the cemetery to problematise the dynamics through which inequality and racism are re-actualised and become central aspects of the management of the pandemic in Brazil. We will focus not only on the policies of managing bodies adopted during the pandemic but also on those associated with other historical periods, examining continuities and ruptures, as well as their relationship to long-term processes.
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