Rebelião da Ilha Anchieta: o primeiro grande massacre em prisão da história do Brasil

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-63250947

Temos o prazer de partilhar o artigo da BBC News Brasil dedicado ao trabalho do nosso colega Dirceu Franco Ferreira, e o livro da sua tese de mestrado intitulado Rebelião e Reforma Prisional em São Paulo (Editora Revan).
O website de notícias UOL também transmitiu a informação por ocasião do 70º aniversário da rebelião dos prisioneiros da ilha de Anchieta, a 20 de Junho de 1952.

https://noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noticias/bbc/2022/10/24/rebeliao-da-ilha-anchieta-o-primeiro-grande-massacre-em-prisao-da-historia-do-brasil.htm

Publicación – Faros y pantanos. Una historia de las prisiones provinciales argentinas (Córdoba, Santa Fe y Tucumán, 1853-1946) 

Tenemos el placer de anunciar la publicación de la tesis de doctorado de nuestro colega del CoPALC Luis G. González Alvo.

Faros y pantanos, es una propuesta de diálogo con la historiografía de las prisiones argentinas que vio en las cárceles provinciales, “pantanos”: espacios inmóviles, grises y sin cambios. Si bien es cierto que los ritmos de cambio provinciales diferían enormemente con el de la capital, el trabajo de los reformistas penitenciarios locales fue el de construir “faros” de modernidad, al estilo del instalado en Buenos Aires: la célebre Penitenciaría Nacional. Se ha discutido mucho sobre el “panóptico”, aquel modelo institucional de la sociedad de control, sin embargo, poco se conoce de aquellos “pantanos” que constituyeron “el gris castigo de la mayoría”. La apuesta de este libro es explorar lo que esconden aquellos espacios de reclusión provinciales, donde se castigaba a la mayor parte de la población carcelaria nacional.

Se parte de la hipótesis de que, precisamente allí, debajo de aquellos pantanos se esconde la prisión argentina primigenia, porque se fraguó en esos grises lugares de transición más que en los “faros modernizadores” de Buenos Aires o Ushuaia. Apartadas del “modelo”, y del “deber ser” punitivo, se esconden en la marisma los embriones de la prisión contemporánea. Adentrarse en el barro y desenterrar esos vestigios, investigar acerca de la lógica de funcionamiento de las cárceles provinciales, permitirá comprender mejor el surgimiento y la consolidación de los dispositivos punitivos que caracterizan a las cárceles argentinas hoy.

Festival Concertina, 2ème édition

Nous avons le grand plaisir de partager le programme du Festival Concertina qui se déroulera du 1er au 3 juillet à Dieulefit dans la Drôme, sous la présidence de Michelle Perrot. La deuxième édition de ce festival unique en son genre sur les enfermements aura pour fil rouge l’évasion. Ce seront 50 rendez-vous dans le long week-end qui rassembleront près de cent intervenants, dont Samuel Tracol, membre du CoPALC, qui interviendra le 1er juillet aux côtés de Corinne Rostaing pour un atelier “Du bagne à la prison contemporaine : une liberté négociée”.

Plus d’informations

Publication du dossier : “Epidémies, crime, justice”.

Nous avons le plaisir de signaler la parution du dossier “Epidémies, crime, justice” dans la revue en ligne Criminocorpus. Sous la direction de Marie Houllemare, Hélène Ménard, Jean-Lucien Sanchez et Samuel Tracol, vous y trouverez sept articles centrés sur les XIXè et XXè siècles européens. Le dossier est toujours ouvert à de nouvelles propositions d’articles.

https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/11760

‘Listening with our feet,’ Wednesday 11 May 2022, 7-8pm (BST)

In this online event, artist Kate McMillan will be talking about various projects exploring the postcolonial legacies of former penal colonies, prison islands alongside the ongoing use of extraterritorial detention by countries such as Australia and the United States. We will be talking about of the notion of ‘listening with my feet’ – listening as a decolonial tool on contested ground, and the influence of indigenous thinking on McMillan growing up in Australia. We will also explore McMillan’s collaborative work with Cat Hope considering ways in which systemic silencing of those both displaced and detained as part of colonial and neocolonial modes of government might be listened to differently.

The conversation will be online via YouTube.
For further information and to register for the event, please visit:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/listening-with-our-feet-kate-mcmillan-in-conversation-with-sophie-fuggle-tickets-329641595887

Slavery, Race and Citizenship in the Atlantic Regimes of Exception: Brazil, Cuba, and the US, 1776-1848

This project analyzes the intersection between slavery, race, and citizenship in the making of regimes of racial violence in the nineteenthcentury Atlantic World. It demonstrates how the Age of Revolution inaugurated a wave of emancipations in the Americas and, at the same time, a second age for bondage in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil. People of African descent resisted captivity, disenfranchisement, and state repression throughout the hemisphere. Yet slavery and racialized citizenship prevailed in these three societies. The emergence of new slaveholding classes influenced the making of constitutions and criminal law in Spain/Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. Despite the specificities of each political and racial regime, they shared one common experience. Statesmen from these nations resolved the contradictions between constitutional principles and the material reality of slavery by establishing racialized regimes of exception under the rule of law. For the people of African descent who suffered under these regimes, the exception was the norm.

Marcelo Ferraro is a Historical Injustice and Democracy Postdoctoral research Associate at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Ferraro completed his PhD at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 2021, having previously received his master’s degree in Social History and his B.A. in History, Law, and Social Sciences at the same institution. His dissertation developed a comparative study on the intersections between slavery and criminal justice in Brazil and the southern United States. He is currently working on his first book on slavery, citizenhip and racial violence in Brazil, Cuba and the United States during the long nineteenth century.

More information.

Conversations in Portuguese on Sound & Image

We are really glad to share Dr. Glória Alhinho next event. Every Thursday, she explores different academic, scientific, and artistic encounters that help create new perspectives to look at our world. It aims to make us question our own responsibility in the way we grow and share knowledge.

For the section on March 17th, she’ll hold a discussion with Virgínia Bessa, Professor at the Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo, Graduate Program in Music at Unicamp, and founder, coordinator and writer of the Teatro Musicado, database in São Paulo (1914-1934): Teatromusicadosp.com.br

If you have questions about this event, please contact Glória Alhinho at ma2007@georgetown.edu

Camila Similhana, nova membra do CoPALC

Camila Similhana é historiadora, doutora em História pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), mestra em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, bacharela e licenciada em História pela mesma instituição. Atualmente desenvolve residência pós-doutoral junto ao PROMESTRE-FaE/UFMG.  Inicialmente se dedicou ao estudo da segurança pública mediante recorte de gênero nas décadas finais do século XX, migrou para a repressão aos grupos étnicos, mais precisamente as comunidades ciganas,
no final do período imperial brasileiro. Desde o ingresso no doutorado, tem se dedicado à pesquisa da história das prisões no Brasil, mais especificamente as cadeias locais mineiras por meio do estudo do fundo da Chefia de Polícia do Arquivo Público Mineiro, buscando, contudo, dialogar com o que é produzido sobre temas semelhantes nos demais estados brasileiros.

Seja muito bem-vinda Camila! Honra e prazer te acolher em nosso colectivo !