Jogos de verdade em pixels: avatares e adolescentes julgadas por tráfico de drogas

Abstract

Infinite sets of rationalities spread out and control populations, bodies, pleasures, thoughts, classifications, drug use, machines, laws, morals, etc. The paraphernalia of power and knowledge comprises truths on how we relate to drugs, naturalizing and legitimizing discourses that produce effects so as to “essentialize” the relationships between individuals and drugs, including the “death-prone” populations of female youths involved with drug trafficking. In this context, the State, in its Judicial capacity, creates narratives that link drug use to acts of law-breaking and trafficking. The research question of the present dissertation thus emerges: which games of truth are linked to incarcerated female juveniles under charges of illicit drug trade? In the governmental biopolitical narrative on females adolescent inmates at the Centro Educacional Aldaci Barbosa Mota (Aldaci Barbosa Mota Educational Center) (Fortaleza-CE), incarcerating state practices come into being, which control them, and eclipse their own participation in the academic, technical and legal discussions defining what drug use or drug traffic are, and which is illegal. This is an implied research, the methodology of which seeks to include these adolescents in a dynamics of production of rationalities, by means of avatar production workshops and informal conversations, recorded in the field diary. Its corpus comprises the transcripts of these informal conversations and workshops, the products of the workshops and the observations recorded in the field diary. We also use dialogical maps as a method to analyze the discursive practices produced. We conclude that the games of truth that have an effect on female juveniles convicted for drug trafficking in Fortaleza have four major vectors of converging forces: 1) genderheteronormative; 2) judicial-punitive; 3) moral-religious; and 4) psychologicalpsychiatric.