As políticas públicas de juventude e o enfrentamento à violência no Estado de Alagoas

Abstract

By considering the current scenario of Alagoas, which shows high rates of violence, particularly involving young people, this research starts on the questioning of how young people have become a government's problem for the State and aims therefore to problematize public youth policies, geared toward combating violence in the state of Alagoas. Drawing on in an analysis and problematization of everyday life, to take the way young people and violence are produced in public policy, we used the theoretical framework of Social Psychology, that dialogue with ideas of Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour. We used as conceptual tools the theorizations of Foucault on governmentality and biopolitics, to discuss public policies and as theoretical-methodological tool cartography of controversies based on Actor-Network Theory. According to this theory the networks are formed by human and non-human elements and the study of the network is given to follow the manufacture and construction of facts as well as the actors and their mediations on the network. From this we perform a mapping of public policies on youth network, aimed at confronting violence, identifying the plans, projects and programs targeting youth and to combat violence in order to know the actors / actants and existing mediations on this network. This mapping led us to the, Youth Alive: a plan prevention of violence against black youth plan. Based on this plan document, we have chosen three axes of discussion, to problematize the formulation and implementation of public policies concerning youth, in this violence scenario, the highlight: the controversy over the target audience of the plan, the naturalization of the relationship between youth and violence and, finally, the naturalization of the relationship between youth and drugs.