A partir da análise da oferta de leitos hospitalares, da violência policial e da distribuição desigual de mortes violentas no espaço urbano da cidade entre 2003 e 2008, o artigo sugere que há um padrão mórbido de governança espacial que elege determinadas geografias urbanas e determinados corpos como os alvos de controle e produção do medo e da violência. Os conceitos de necropoder e governamentalidade discutidos por Michael Foucault e Achille Mbembe, respectivamente, sustentam o argumento de que a distribuição desigual da morte no município se constitui em uma necro-política estatal de gestão do espaço urbano e controle da população, seja por omissão seja por cumplicidade com os padrões mórbidos de relações raciais no Brasil.
This article examines black criminal agency in the context of drug trafficking and territorial control by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command, PCC), a self-identified criminal organisation in São Paulo's favelas. It argues that black youth's racialised encounters with the police shape their political praxis in the city. Since in the racial imaginary, they are constantly linked to crime and violence, and since their criminalised status justifies mass incarceration and death by the police, criminality appears as a valid category to better understand not only their fate but also their agency. Ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2009 and 2010 in a hyper-impoverished, predominately black slum community, along with weekly visits to a local detention centre in São Paulo, informs the author's analysis of the PCC's controversial languages of resistance and the gendered and racialised outcomes that emerge from their attempts to fend off the state in such topographies of domination.
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