Citizenship and authoritarianism in Brazil: an investigation about the infrapolitical feature of the “diffuse hatred violence”

Abstract

The article is an analysis of the current transformations in Brazil and the violence increase after the democratization, focusing the banal violence cases or those which manifests intolerance. The important theoretical assumption is that the violence is a political problem, considering as an act in concert. In this sense, the constitution of the citizenship and its current dilemmas help to reveal the violence specificities in the contemporary Brazilian context. The data and the arguments presented seek to bring material to the concept of the diffuse hatred violence, having as basis the notion of the new paradigm of violence, by Michel Wieviorka, and the political crisis. In order to approach the citizenship constitution, the article begins its historical path by seeking the scars left by the military dictatorship, which changes the violence, and, finally, the article approaches the recent acceleration of the economy and the decrease in poverty in the country.