Retreating mortified migrants in ‘Ceará-da-seca’:

population (bio)policies in the modern State consolidation

Authors

  • Natalia Monzón Montebello Doutora em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo PUC-SP e Professora Adjunto da Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE
  • Marcílio Medeiros Silva Licenciado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE e Pesquisador da Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32335/2238-0426.2018.8.21.1058

Keywords:

biopolitics, retreating migrants, mortified people, camp; drought

Abstract

Based on the notion of ‘Ceará-da-seca,’ this article describes the emergence and consolidation, since 1877, of a sovereign power over life deployed through population policies aimed to manage the social effects of drought in the region. Thus, there are biopolitical government practices that characterize the modern State institutionalization as tied to exception devices (tent buildings, lazarettos, concentration camps, and work fronts), designed to protect a (urban and industrial) way of life so that it is guaranteed in face of the cyclical invasion of retreating migrants from the ‘sertão,’ taking to the coast, during each severe drought event, the abrupt spectacle of the barbarism of hunger, misery, plague.

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Published

2018-08-06

How to Cite

Montebello, N. M., & Silva, M. M. (2018). Retreating mortified migrants in ‘Ceará-da-seca’:: population (bio)policies in the modern State consolidation. Conhecer: Debate Entre O Público E O Privado, 8(21), 60–77. https://doi.org/10.32335/2238-0426.2018.8.21.1058

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 21 (2018)

Section

Artigos

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