Mourir en silence
La violence ordinaire d'une ville brésilienne
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2951633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Nancy Scheper‐Hughes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 64-80 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0335-5322 • E-ISSN: 1955-2564 |
| Publisher | CAIRN (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3917/arss.p1994.104n1.0064 |
| OpenAlex | W4239780745, W2047651621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Ordinary Violence of a Brazilian City Alarming rumours about the traffic in organs or the theft of children and quasi-ontological anxiety and insecurity about the ownership of one's own body are maintained by the indifference of « the bureaucracy » towards the life and death of the shanty-town « marginals » - unemployed migrants from the country, young delinquents, street children and the poorest of the poor. The public rituals which bring the shanty-town people into contact with the State, at the hospital, the registrar's office, the mortuary and the town cernetery do indeed weave the context for a banalization of horror. Within this framework, apparently incomprehensible and unpredictable events - such as « disappearances » and torture - become a predictable and expected norm for ail those who have been made socially insignificant
Art · Bureaucracy · Criminology · Geography · Human rights · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Torture · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2019 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |