“As Envolvidas”: um estudo de caso dos feminicídios de adolescentes em Fortaleza em 2018 à luz da necropolítica de gênero

Abstract

This work examines, from the perspective of gender necropolitics, the femicides of girls and young women that took place in 2018, in the midst of urban violence on the outskirts of Fortaleza. For this, initially, is seek to understand the necropolitics of gender, especially its direct expression, which is the femicide, highlighting the relationship between the occurrence of this crime with socioeconomic and oppression markers, such as gender, race and class, and with the biopatriarchal State structure. Then, it is intended to examine the factors that converge to the occurrence and the characteristics of the violent deaths of female adolescents that happened in peripheral territories of Fortaleza. Finally, using the technical procedure of the case study, is intended to investigate the manifestation of the necropolitics of gender in these murders and the typification of these as femicides. For this work, which has a qualitative approach and a pure result, a bibliographic research was carried out on the subject, also using official data made available by specialized institutes, especially by the Ceará Committee for the Prevention of Homicide in Adolescence (CCPHA) in its report Girls in Ceará: the life trajectory and vulnerability of adolescent victims of homicide, as well as cases in criminal proceedings. As a result, it is understood that the biopatriarchalist State uses race and class to dispose of female bodies in the delimitation of legitimate and unworthy subjects and, therefore, subject to institutional helplessness and death. In this sense, based on the perception that girls, poor and racialized occupy a subordinate place, criminal factions use their bodies, through the systematic practice of femicides, to assert their power and strength before other men. This scenario, in turn, is perceived in the periphery of the capital of Ceará, which also has fundamental behaviors on the part of the State for the maintenance of the necropolitics of gender in the dynamics of urban violence.