"As senzalas metamorfosearam-se de presídios”: o debate das categorias Biopoder‌ ‌e‌ ‌Necropolítica‌ nos ditames da lei de drogas brasileira (2015-2020)

Abstract

This article presents a brief narrative review of current Brazilian drug policy, based on the contemporary decolonial epistemological debate in the field of biopolitics, based on two philosophical and analytical categories: Michel Foucault's Biopower (1976, 2014) and Achille's Necropolitics Mbembe (2014). The importance of this reflection is linked to the human rights of the Brazilian black population, from the observation of the legislation of Drug Law 11.343 of 23 August 2006, of a group subordinated by racism, and thus vulnerable to poverty, trafficking and to suspicion. Thus, the research highlights the justification for investigating this universe, from an intersectional perspective of social markers of race, social class, gender, and age and generation. For that, through a bibliographical research and documentary research, it brings the data and incidences of this Law and the comprehension of the practices of the State from the mentioned categories. Aspects of the Policy of death and control of bodies in modernity are found, based on the discussion that presents the Brazilian drug policy, reaffirming black skin as a target of penal selectivity of the Drug Law, which is revealed in incarceration rates and violence against racialised, peripheral and non-Eurocentred populations.