“Onde está o meu filho?”: a denúncia do desaparecimento de pessoas
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2018-03-26
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Within the social space, events socially identified as disappearances often stimulates reflection
concerning justice, dignity, and well-being, as well as demands for recognition. Such demands are
generally aimed solely at police institutions, but in some cases assume the form of protests not
always mediated by collective movements. Leading characters in the social objectivisation of this
form of drama tend to be victims’ relatives, particularly their mothers. In addition, reports often fail
to be pursued by police investigative services or justice departments. Nevertheless, the issue of
disappearances in the public space takes the form of a political grammar, marked by a display of
suffering that is undeniable and psychologically devastating. The present study is grounded on the
efforts and protests of mothers and relatives of missing people in having their reports taken up by
public security institutions, whether they seek recognition of their cases through police procedures,
the broader justice system or media coverage. I have mapped the moral and political grammars in
reports filed by missing people’s mothers and relatives who participated in this study, as well as
assessed in public documents the way such protests are appropriated by journalists, intellectuals,
public prosecutors, political representatives, mothers supporting non-governmental organizations,
and other social agents who act as social critics, i.e. those who establish complaint channels and
set the bases for structuring the issue of disappearances in the public forum. The analysis shows
how the intervention of social critics in such a dynamic turns one’s attention from the compassion
generated by the suffering of mothers and relatives to certain systems and structures; these are
regarded as either directly responsible for disappearances – in the cases of state-led violence – or
indirectly responsible by failing to produce prevention measures or to locate and punish offenders.
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FRANÇA, P. M. F. “Onde está o meu filho?”: a denúncia do desaparecimento de pessoas. 2018. 173 f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2018.