A Guarda Municipal de Maceió como resistência: uma instituição em processo de deterioração

Abstract

The Maceió Municipal Guard has been a fundamental police institution for the security not only of public property, but also in the prevention of urban violence within the municipal sphere. Implanted in 1989, this institution has undergone several administrative changes and modifications until culminating in its extinction in 2009. And together its agents express their feeling of forgetfulness, abandonment, anguish through the written responses obtained through their participation in the Discussion Groups , using the virtual platform methodological instrument using the free WhatsApp application. In this sense, the present work aims to understand how the process of social construction of the supposed “feeling of institutional deterioration” of the Municipal Guard of Maceió takes place, from the phenomenological perspective in Schütz (2012; 2018), going through a discussion about the Chicago School's contribution to studies on the city and urban violence. The transcribed perceptions of the participating agents were operationalized using Discourse Analysis in Fiorin and Mangueneau and to a lesser extent Content Analysis. The results obtained point to the feeling of institutional deterioration present and expressed in the responses of the agents involved in the research, through linguistic marks such as "abandonment", "forgetfulness", among many others contained in the speech.