A DESIGUALDADE DOS CORPOS E A SELETIVIDADE DA MEMÓRIA NO BRASIL PÓS-TRANSIÇÃO DEMOCRÁTICA

Abstract

The social diagnosis developed from the participant research in Heliópolis through the project Memories and Resistances: the dictatorship in the slum (2016-2018) and data on

caused by the persistence of violent practices and torture after the democratic transi- tion. This article seeks to demonstrate that such violence is anchored in the establish- ment of inequality between bodies, that is, in the de nition of bodies that are protected and valued, including by the State, to the detriment of those that are discarded and violated. It also seeks to reveal how the suspicion about the narratives made by bodies considered to deviate from the norms leads to a selectivity of memory and trauma. It begins by discussing the persistence of dictatorial marks in Brazil (1), followed by an analysis of the bodies that are victims of violence, established as uncircumscribed and dehumanized (2), then discusses the perversion of suspicion versus the right to memory (3), and concludes by presenting a brief re ection on the resistance role of the university through the construction of political memory and the shared production of knowledge.