Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUCAS VIEIRA DA SILVA SANTOS

Daily life, administrative routines and challenges in the Recife Detention House (1945-1964)

Daily life, administrative routines, Recife Detention Center

Prisons played different roles throughout history, as they became increasingly present in political, social and scientific debates, which aimed to reform, overcome or even interpret it based on the fruits they could offer. . In fact, such buildings occupied the center and protagonism of the most diverse narrative propositions, however, here we would like to see these “complete and austere” institutions, not just as the most suitable space for sentences of deprivation of liberty are carried out, but as a privileged laboratory that amplifies social relations to the nth degree, becoming capable of manufacturing exponential amounts of information about those convicted, forming “around them a complete apparatus of observation, recording and notations, constituting a knowledge about them that accumulates and centralizes”.