A SEGURANÇA QUE NÃO É PARA TODOS: DISCURSOS SOBRE VIOLÊNCIA E SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA

Abstract

Guided by the materialism-oriented theoretical background of Discourse Analysis, we have analyzed two different materials whose theme is the urban violence. Those clippings consist of comments posted at the G1 news portal on the death of the boy named Ryan, victim of a stray bullet, and excerpts of the text called ECA do B, written by Eliane Brum and published in the online newspaper El País-Brasil, which configured as a parody of the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA – Estatuto da criança e do adolescente). Through the analysis of those clippings, we sought to understand how the renderings of violence and public security make sense and have their meanings circulating in the social space when the subject victims of urban violence are adolescents and black and poor children.

Keywords

• Materialism-oriented Discourse Analysis
• urban violence
• public security
• denouncement
• social tension