The biopolitical criminalization of poverty from the tale “O outro”, by Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

Social inequality is a significant embryonic factor in violence. From the socioeconomic disparity and criminalization of poverty, the scientific article problematizes the construction and/or selection of groups considered dangerous to coexistence in collectivity. The objective is based on analyzing the stereotype of the “stranger”, “enemy” and “criminal” in the figure of subjects belonging to the subalternized classes in the light of Rubem Fonseca’s tale “O outro”, revealing the biopolitical contours. With the orientation of the phenomenological-hermeneutic method, qualitative approach, exploratory technique and bibliographic and documentary procedures, the research glimpses social inequality as element of configuration of the poor as “strange”, “enemy” and “criminal” to be constituted in naked life and eliminated from the societal fabric, in the bulge of a true “Criminology of the Other”.