Banca de DEFESA: LUIZA ANTUNES DANTAS DE OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : LUIZA ANTUNES DANTAS DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 29/04/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: CPDA/UFRRJ
TITLE:

“The dock is empty!”: peoples’ tribunals and the struggles over memory and justice in face of violence against peasants in the last years of the dictatorship in Brazil.

KEY WORDS:

Collective Actions; Law; Social Movements; Military Dictatorship; Impunity

PAGES: 334
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUBÁREA: Outras Sociologias Específicas
SUMMARY:

Throughout this thesis, we define people’s tribunals as protest actions carried out in the form of trials dedicated to crimes not formally recognized by the justice system or treated in an incomplete and unsatisfactory manner, according to the victims and their families. In general, the tribunals are held by social movements and other organizations that use legal rituals to make complaints, hear witnesses, identify those responsible and announce positions in political processes of the time. The thesis focuses on the experiences organized by rural social movements during the political transition in Brazil, called the Land Tribunals and the National Tribunal of Latifundium Crimes. The judgement experiences looked over cases of murders motivated by land conflicts. Responsibilities for other forms of violence in rural settings were also denounced.  The protest tribunals are assumed to be an empirical terrain to delve into the uses of law in the repertoire of collective actions around the disputes for democratization, using analytical lenses that interconnect political sociology and sociolegal studies. Assuming that the forms of legal mobilization by rural social movements during the political transition are closely related to social uses and meanings cultivated throughout the Military Dictatorship (1964-1985), the reflection dialogues with the accounts related to the features of political repression in the countryside, as well as the effects of the dictatorship on the forms of organization and resistance on rural struggles. Finally, four uses of protest of law related to the authoritarian context are pointed out, which compete to the creation of the popular tribunals that constitute the subjetct of the thesis: “on a legal basis”, “anti-judiciary”, “to redefine the laws” and “in the name of justice”. This is qualitative research based on interviews and analysis of historical documents from different collections.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - ***.209.648-** - LEONILDE SERVOLO DE MEDEIROS - UFRRJ
Interna - 1576873 - PRISCILA DELGADO DE CARVALHO
Externa à Instituição - ALESSANDRA GASPAROTTO - UFPel
Externa à Instituição - CRISTIANA LOSEKANN - UFES
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO DE CASTRO FONTAINHA