O sentido do risco

Vulnerabilidade e violência: uma nova concepção de risco para o estudo dos homicídios de jovens

“…On the contrary, these behaviors, even the most apparently irresponsible ones, indicate an implicit demand for responsibility (La Mendola, 2005) and, therefore, show the search for a feeling of identity (Le Breton, 2000). In this way, in light of the absence of symbolic limits that serve as orientations, it is in the essentially corporal experience that this feeling is searched for, and this is why risk, even the risk of death, acquires importance in this process.…”

“…In this context, risk control becomes more and more related to individual strategies, as socially there is greater exemption in relation to the collective responsibility of risk management, leaving to the individuals the onus for possible negative effects (Peralva, 2000;Mitjavila, Jesus, 2004). On the other hand, because it unmakes the symbolic limits that are capable of giving support to an identity feeling and it is in the search for these limits that many youths end up in risk situations, where the confrontation with death (in an imaginary or real form) may become a fundamental element in the affirmation of the value of their existence (Le Breton, 2000).…”

“…Thus, according to Le Breton (2000), the transition to adult life represents in modernity a critical moment in which these risk conducts become emblematic and strongly adopted. In view of the social indetermination instituted by modernity, there are no more rites of passage that can symbolize and legitimize the entrance into adult life and, mainly, focus on the future and remove the uncertainty about the conduction of existence, as it happens in traditional societies.…”

“…In this way, in light of the absence of symbolic limits that serve as orientations, it is in the essentially corporal experience that this feeling is searched for, and this is why risk, even the risk of death, acquires importance in this process. Defeating the death that was requested by means of risk practices means that the individual existence has value (Le Breton, 2000).…”

Risco e vulnerabilidade como analisadores nas políticas públicas sociais: uma análise crítica

“…Se o indivíduo delinquente foi uma figura social produzida e recortada pela sociedade disciplinar, o "indivíduo em risco", como caracterizado por Bello (2007), Castel (1987, Costa (2004), Foucault (2008), Hardt e Negri (2001), Mendola (2005), Morais e Nascimento (2002), Pogrebinschi (2004), Oliveira e Heckert (2013), Traversini e Bello (2009), Vaz (1999), autores os quais operam de modos diversos com a categoria fundamental de "risco social", seria seu equivalente na atualidade, representando uma das estratégias do novo arranjo societário, baseado no conceito de controle, enquanto um monitoramento permanente que visa calcular, prever e tornar sem efeito possíveis ameaças sociais.…”