MULHER, RAÇA E CLASSE: O ENCARCERAMENTO EM MASSA DE MULHERES MULAS ENQUANTO UM ASPECTO NECROPOLÍTICO

Authors

  • Adalberto Davi Cruz Moitinho Dourado Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
  • Luísa Vanessa Carneiro da Costa Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17564/2316-381X.2025v10n2p253-265

Abstract

The present work discusses the mass incarceration of female drug mules from a necropolitical perspective, considering the markers of gender, race, and class, to reflect on the dimensionality of colonization and segregation within the prison context. Methodologically, the research is structured through the dialectical method, employing a qualitative approach, bibliographic, exploratory, and descriptive research, and includes content analysis. To consolidate the theoretical framework, we draw on contributions from authors such as Davis, Mbembe, Butler, and Pires, who helped align the discussion on the place of incarcerated female mules by examining the dynamics of gender, race, and class through a necropolitical process that selects which human lives must die and which must remain alive, as well as how this process unfolds. Therefore, it is crucial to highlight how classist, racist, and colonialist guidelines operate to facilitate mass incarceration, which is reinforced by an anti-drug policy embedded in Western society, allowing us to identify a process of social and political marginalization rooted in the state's sovereign power to kill.

Keywords: Gender. Race. Class.

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Author Biography

Luísa Vanessa Carneiro da Costa, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

PhD Candidate in Law - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), with a sandwich period at the Institute of Philosophical Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Recipient of the “Nota 10” scholarship from the Rio de Janeiro State Research Support Foundation (FAPERJ), also supported by the Red de Académicas/os Latinoamericanas/os del Derecho through the Fondo de Apoyos a la Movilidad de Investigadorxs del Nordeste do Brasil (RedAlas). Additionally, awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro for an internship at the Diversity and Inclusion Coordination of the Law Department (PUC-Rio). Holds a Master’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP). Postgraduate in Human Rights: Education and Resocialization - Cândido Mendes University (UCAM). Bachelor of Law from the University Center of Vale do Ipojuca (UNIFAVIP). Researcher in the project Critical Theory of Law, within the scope of CAPES/DAAD: Spheres of Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin: Rights, Frontiers, Agencies (PUC-Rio/CNPq). Researcher at G-pense! - Research Group on Contemporaneity, Subjectivities, and New Epistemologies (UPE/CNPq). Assistant Editor of the Direito, Estado e Sociedade Journal of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council of the Law Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).

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Published

2025-07-20

How to Cite

Davi Cruz Moitinho Dourado, A., & Vanessa Carneiro da Costa, L. (2025). MULHER, RAÇA E CLASSE: O ENCARCERAMENTO EM MASSA DE MULHERES MULAS ENQUANTO UM ASPECTO NECROPOLÍTICO. Interfaces Científicas - Direito, 10(2), 253–265. https://doi.org/10.17564/2316-381X.2025v10n2p253-265

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025): Fluxo Contínuo

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