Necropolítica e racismo na construção da cartografia da violência nas periferias de Belém

Abstract

The present text aims to analyze the cartography of homicides or the cartography of violence in Belém, Pará, Brazil, especially from the overlapping of territories involving drug traffickers, militiamen, and the state that manifests the most varied forms of urban conflict. Hence, the overlapped territories produce a necropolitics that has, in the racial component, an inducing element of the banalization and naturalization of the deaths. The methodology used herein is based on bibliographic and documental research, statistical data analysis, and fieldwork. As a result, there is the production of the map of violence in Belém, which points to a concentration of the homicide spots in the precarious and peripheral areas of the city, thus highlighting the need for an urban policy accompanied by public policies.