Limites da guerra às drogas: por outra ética dos usos e ocupações nas/das cidades.

Abstract

This paper presents part of the results of a research whose objective was to map some of the effects of hygienicurban strategies of the War on Drugs policy in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso. For that, chronicles are used as a research narrative to show how drug war policies produce practices of social mortification, in a process of criminal selectivity. In analysis, we argue that the use of drugs leads us to a central problem that concerns the way we cohabit in the cities. Fragmented cities, separated by ghettos and social markers, materially and symbolically walled. The streets become a territory in unequal dispute, where an ethics is urged, instead of practices of moralization and mortification.