Modos de desaparecer e estratégias de esquecimento da ditadura civil-militar brasileira: uma política de terror anunciado

Abstract

This monograph had as its main objective to investigate the various ways of disappearing and forgetting strategies, employed during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship established between 1964 and 1985, which was marked by the violation of civil rights and institutional and systematic violence, in addition to numerous violations to human rights such as torture, assassinations and forced disappearances, relying on a regime rich in repressive apparatus, well articulated and sophisticated, through which the Armed Forces tried and succeeded, as indicated by several studies in the literature in the area, for years, to silence and oppress any type of claim, discontent and opposition to the military government, instilling terror and fear in the population. In the quest to understand how such forgetting strategies were processed, the concepts of Archeology of Repression and Resistance, Repressive and Disciplinary Architecture and State Terrorism and Culture of Fear were used in this work. Based on this theoretical concept, the archaeological concept of operational chain was applied to then systematize the forms and processes of destruction of identity and memory of the Brazilian civil-military regime. The proposal of this application to the kidnapping and disappearance of militants resulted in evidence that characterized dehumanizing and objectifying aspects of the State of exception and, at the same time, allowed us to glimpse the integrated process of production of oblivion and concealment of dissent by the political police, a theme that is usually worked on isolated in archeology, based on the sites and remains of each of the stages (clandestine detention centers and mass graves). From this structural analysis, it was possible to observe more clearly how each stage of the chain works to form its paths of destruction and silencing of political dissidents.