Criminalização do funk e racismo estrutural: a narratividade discursiva nos portais R7 e G1 sobre a tragédia de Paraisópolis

Abstract

The general objective of this work is to problematize the discursive characteristics of the G1 and R7 media portals on the tragedy of Paraisópolis (2019), in order to understand how journalistic discourse on this topic is produced and circulated. Tragédia de Paraisópolis was the statement given to an action by the Military Police of São Paulo during a “funk” party, which resulted in nine deaths in 2019; This event had a lot of visibility and repercussion in the mainstream media and expanded the discussion about the criminalization of “funk”. From the grouping of people in the peripheries, who share similar histories and socioeconomic conditions, Brazilian funk is born. As a result of this musical style, the so-called funk dances are derived, parties with a large concentration of young people and very powerful sounds, which take place in the suburban and peripheral regions of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and other states of the country. The relationship between newspapers and the funk crowd has been unstable for a long time, which is reflected in the journalistic coverage of the object of this research, which is part of the field of Discourse Analysis and mobilizes concepts such as discursive formation, discursive memory, discursive event and narrativity, supported by Pêcheux (1990, 1995, 1999), Foucault (2008) and Orlandi (2005, 2015, 2017). In order to observe racialized journalistic discourses (MODESTO, 2021), Mbembe's concepts of necropolitics (2011) and Almeida's structural racism (2018) were mobilized. For the constitution of the object of analysis of this study, the organization of the file was carried out, through the collection of journalistic texts found on the online platform "Google Notícias", using the statement "Tragédia de Paraisópolis", in three different periods of time. The first, referring to the day of the tragedy, 12/01/2019, the second corresponding to 08/27/2020, the date on which the Public Prosecutor's Office of São Paulo denounces the police for intent homicide, and the third, in 2021, when the Court accepts the complaint. For this study, two news portals considered national reference were chosen "R7" and "G1". Since it is important to understand whether the journalistic coverage corroborates the process of criminalization of funk, it is interesting to look out for reference vehicles, given that the reach of these portals is expressive. This work intends to understand how journalistic narrativity “textualizes memory” (ORLANDI, 2017) when it comes to events related to black and peripheral culture, resulting in the inscription of the two portals in the same discursive formation so that, by the functioning of the narrativity, it became possible to observe the process of criminalization of funk and the deletion of racialization about the event.