Banca de DEFESA: ERISVÂNIA GOMES DA SILVA

THE IMAGINARY FORMATION ABOUT THE SUBJECT IN RELATION TO DRUGS: DISCOURSES OF LAW, CRACOLANDIA 

AND JOURNALISM

Keywords: Discourse Analysis; Drug legislation; Subjects; Drug users; dependents and drug dealers; Cracolândia.

This research, as part of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics’ Study of Discursive Processes, at the State University of Mato Grosso (PPGL/MT), aims to shine a light, through the perspective of materialist Discourse Analysis, to the functionings that establish the meanings on discourses about drugs in Brazil, through current legislation (Law 13.840/2019 and Decree 9.761/2019) and news published in/by the media and in/by social networks, focusing on understanding the imaginary formations of drug and its users, addiction and drug dealers, that generate these discourses. Therefore, we approach the ways of constitution of the legal discourse, giving an understanding of the legal basis that regulates these subject positions, as long as we analyse the issue of the paradoxes created between the interests/needs and the desires of citizens, by the space of Cracolândia.  Next, we take Cracolândia as a space that reverberates the intertwining among the political, legal, administrative and the socioeconomic matters in the urban space, as a place to observe the relations among subjects, language and history, analyzing how these crossed-wires and the other discourses derivated from them are interpreted in the discursive practices at the city when associated to drugs,  in ways to attribute meanings to the individuals living on the streets and drug users/dependents of a substance considered illicit and of higher danger, crack.