Mother’s rebellion. Collective care ethics facing necropolitics of teenage imprisonment

Abstract

This article analyzes the practices and affections involved in negotiation and denunciation activities carried out by mothers in the face of the necropolitical power operated in the incarceration of adolescents in Fortaleza, capital of Ceará. I analyze the ways of building collective bonds and belonging to the Group, not as a closed and fixed unit, but as a convergence whose dynamics are porous to the influence of other subjects and the action of its participants and the public expression of an ethics with a central focus on care through protest. Regarding care as an axis to this analysis, under the necropolitical power, this paper evidences how violence, gender, race and State are coproduced in the conformation of social places of mother’s “fight”.