Cidade e violência: Campina Grande na década de 1980 e as representações do "Mão Branca" nos jornais.

Abstract

The present work i f he/she enrolls in a research of the recent history (HTP - History of the Present Time) on the city, precisely, Campina Grande-PB and the nuances about the urban violence and representation in the decade of 1980. Contundentemente the violence while symbolic action attributed to the group of extermination " White " Hand in the Newspapers Daily of Borborema and Newspaper of Paraíba. In specific domain, our research tried to discuss how the city of Campina Grande was among the decades of 1980/1990 in several spheres: economical, politics and cultural, as well as, an explanation was elaborated on the violence and your multiples segments, with emphasis to the symbolic field, intimately related to the representation. Enter the adopted methodological procedures: bibliographical analysis (books, Dissertations, etc.) and documental analysis (Newspapers and Criminal Processes). The research grew mainly starting from the referenciais propugnados for, Chartier (1990), Certeau (2008), Aredent (2009), I Adorn (1990), Bauman (2005), Chalhoub (1996), among others. Among the several observations, in that study, we could end that, besides having elaborated an approach about the representation, it is verified as the group of extermination " White " Hand he/she appears in the time newspapers as a strategy persuasive mercadológica, since many citizens campinenses represented the action of that group some times as thieves, other times as " redeeming young men " of the peace and traquilidade since through the fear that you/they caused with the exhibition it publishes of a " List " of names of the " dangerous elements marked to die " they provided a " cleaning " in the city.