A condição de "bichão da favela" e a busca por "consideração": uma etnografia de jovens armados em favelas à beira-mar

Abstract

discusses the so-called “bichão”, a youngster who, striving for “consideration”, lives in a world of moral offences and social accusations of lack of respect that result in agonistic and even lethal disputes. The ethnographic field work was conducted between 2009 and 2010 in slums along the coast of Fortaleza, Brazil, in the port zone of Grande Mucuripe, considered dangerous, undesirable and run-down areas, where family networks composed of people originating from the fishing villages, dock workers and sea workers in general live.