Biopolíticas da cidade: um estudo sobre a Vila de Pescadores do Jaraguá

Abstract

This study proposes a discussion about objectivities and subjectivities propagated by the printed and digital journalism media of Alagoas about the Fishermen’s Village at Jaraguá and their residents between 1980-2016. A traditional fishing community, which lived for 95 years in a privileged area at the Jaraguá district in Maceio, Alagoas – known for being one of the most attractive tourism locations in Brazil –, was violently expelled from there in June/2015 after a judicial process. The analyses were made from the journalistic material selected in a previous research that has considered the most complete editions from the main journals from each period. The theoretical reference used is from Foucault’s theories which provide the subsidy to think on how the social problems and the truth regimes are made. Initially, we analyzed the tourism process at Jaraguá and its implications at the Fishermen’s Village. Then, we discussed how the [in]visible way of viewing at the city and the transition of speeches between ‘Fishermen’s Village at Jaraguá’ and ‘Jaraguá’s favela’ both happen among the years upon the real estate valorization and speculation at Jaraguá, and the speeches associated with these processes. Finally, we studied the mechanisms of resistance of which the residents of the village used to reaffirm themselves as a community. We conclude that the approach of management of the city can constitute means of enhancement and affirmation of social inequality, as well as, the media has na important role on the construction of a justification for that at the same time that produces “truths”.