Body and violence

everyday experiences in contexts marked by criminality and fear

Abstract

This article aims to be a contribution to the studies dedicated to the understanding of corporal practices in contexts represented from the perspective of crime and fear. In this perspective, we intend in our text to reflect on the place of the body in the daily experiences of residents of a neighborhood of the periphery of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, highlighting the contribution of the corporal question to the shape of the contours of the current Brazilian democratic regime. Exploring the mishaps of the residents of spaces crossed by the representation of violence and fear, through an approach that privileges the sense and meanings negotiated in the social game, we will talk about how the body emerges as a full element of meanings in the processing and development of knowledge social. Appreciated from the point of view of crime and urban fears, the public space of the great Brazilian cities is not represented as a safe place for material ostentatious and unconcerned manifestations of the “I” mediated by objects of consumption.