Vidas precárias: experiência prisional e mecanismos particulares de encarceramento no presídio do Serrotão-PB.

Abstract

The research that originated the present work was made from our incursion inside the Serrotão Prison, located in the city of Campina Grande-PB. The experience of voluntary participation in projects developed by the State University of Paraíba within this prison has enabled us to attend regularly in this space, as well as the contact with a group of actors who experience this environment from different perspectives (prisoners, employees, lawyers, teachers). This experience has proved to be a fertile field of analysis of how the interactional dynamics that are established inside the prison is aligned to asymmetric power structures that operate in a pre-reflexive way with expectations of dehumanization that will lead to practices of domination that are imposed by violence, so, for many prisioners, death is close issue. The hypothesis that guides this thesis is that there is a correlation between precariousness as a condition that is a constituent part of prison experience and mechanisms of dehumanization. As a concrete result of the research, the concept of precarious lives (BUTLER, 2006) is used to contextualize the prison universe and to explore the potentialities of analysis of social relations that are woven in / about prison.