O Azuelo, a Colocação e a Tranca Ejó de Polícias e Relações Complexas nas Noites da Pista.

Abstract

Taking the notion of relationship as a clue, this thesis proposed to map controversies and complexities that arise at the intersections of different police forces with travestis sex workers on the streets. With critical criminology as a compass to compose the cartographic view, some dimensions could be observed. In a first context, the history of police differentiation itself continues to be a contemporary dispute to the same extent that it points to gaps that make it impossible for us to understand the institutions that take on the name – while disputing the power of – police, as a large homogeneous bloc. Paying attention to the disputes originating from the differences between the police, we can see how these disputes are profoundly productive in direct contact with travestis, in particular, including in the creation of the first institutionalized social movement of travestis in Brazil. Following the cartographic outline, pajubá is vocabulary that guides us in the analysis, so that, after analyzing the police, three large zones become possible: Azuelo, Colocação and Tranca. Putting into analysis different uses of violence in street scenes is the object of the look at Azuelo, realizing how since the precariousness of life possibilities, the agency of violence assumes different functions. In relation to the Colocações, we were able to think about how, in the relationship with the police in street sex work, drug policy is a constant shadow across two lines - the use of different substances as a tool for instrumentalizing precarious sex work and, in On the other hand, the forged flagrant practices that take place in drug policy, a great discursive and legal subterfuge to produce criminalizations in a context in which the police officer who is being approached is the main witness to what happened. Finally, thinking about the lock as an element of a perverse continuity of the precariousness of the street in the trajectory of relations with the police also calls for understanding how this character seems to update itself even within prisons, as with the recent creation of the figure of the criminal police officer. Along with this, understanding how prison is being configured in Brazil as a legacy of a project produced in the context of slave colonization helps us understand some difficulties that social control of prison policies faces, especially in attempts to prevent and combat torture. Understanding how the relationship with different police forces is central to the composition of travestis memories in Brazil makes us realize that in our contexts, given the decades of precariousness to which travestis were exposed, there is no way to think about the production of transvestis subjectivity without considering the centrality of the relationship with alibam in all spheres – in the origins of the social movement, in everyday life on the streets and even in the creation of pajubá as a travesti language.