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GALEANO, Giovana Barbieri  e  GUARESCHI, Neuza Maria de Fátima. “Bum has no memory”: The killable bodies of security practices. Psi Unisc [online]. 2023, vol.7, n.1, pp.171-196.  Epub 10-Abr-2026. ISSN 2527-1288.  https://doi.org/10.17058/psiunisc.v7i1.17792.

This article emerges from the actuality of the opinion “bum has no memory” and aims to analyze the production of killable bodies within Brazilian security practices. From post-structuralist social psychology, we approach the thoughts of Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin to produce our methodological tool as well as Giorgio Agamben’s conceptual tools to compose the analytical field on the matability of bodies in the scope of security practices. Urban narratives of violence move the scenes with which we become accustomed to conducting ourselves daily. We learn to guide our behaviors in the face of the fact that the police serve to protect, but they kill and is also the one that dies the most. This complex field of public security puts into play killable bodies and gives visibility to an institution (the police) whose history of formation and mode of operation makes visible the structural racism and whiteness that organize the Brazilian State, even in the face of formal changes in legislation regarding public security policies. In this text, we analyze the production of killable bodies in the scope of security practices based on racial problematization, especially considering how whiteness feeds the will to kill that constitutes Brazilian security practices.

Palavras-chave : Necrobiopower; Police lethality; Security practices; Will to kill.

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