Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MILLA PINHEIRO BARAÚNA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MILLA PINHEIRO BARAÚNA
DATE: 08/12/2025
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: remoto meet
TITLE:

Between Walls and Margins: The incarceration of Black women in Brazil

 

KEY WORDS:

Female incarceration; Mass incarceration; Women's prisons; Prison; Prison; Prison geography.

PAGES: 25
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

ABSTRACT
This paper aims to investigate the phenomenon of the mass incarceration of Black women, who are the majority in Brazilian women's prisons, from a critical perspective that articulates the relations of race, gender, and class with the racial production and division of space (Gonzalez, 2020). Data from 2017 from the National Penitentiary Information Survey (INFOPEN) indicate that, of the 37,828 women deprived of liberty, 63.55% are Black (Black and mixed-race), 74% are mothers, and 60% are serving time for drug trafficking, evidencing that the penal system has consolidated itself as a mechanism of social control that operates in Brazil as a state policy aimed at discarding and segregating specific segments of the population. The urgency of this research is manifested in the need to answer the central question: why are Black women the majority in Brazilian women's prisons? The desire to investigate the presence of Black women in prison spaces is justified by the need to value and make visible this segment of the incarcerated population, which is the majority in the Brazilian female prison system, but is underrepresented in geographical research, especially those studies that emphasize the particularities of these women's compulsory entry into the prison system. A national scope is adopted for the investigation because this is understood to be a structural and multi-scalar phenomenon, whose productive mechanisms operate and reproduce themselves similarly in different states of the country, and due to the organization of available statistical data. The overall objective of the research is to analyze the incarceration of Black women in Brazil from a critical geographical perspective, understanding it as an expression of structural racism and historical processes of criminalization and social exclusion, articulated by multiple scales of power and marked by profound spatial inequalities. The intention is to interpret prison as a spatiality that is a product of interrelations and produced from attributes of race, social class, and gender, recognizing the mass incarceration of Black women as a racist project and not as something accidental. The methodological construction of the study is based on the articulation of three fundamental axes that provide the necessary directions for understanding the phenomenon: Prison Geography (Moran, 2015), Feminist Epistemologies (Silva, 2009), and Black Geographies (Guimarães, 2020). The study will have a qualitative-quantitative bibliographic character, consisting mainly of books and scientific articles, which will allow for the coverage of a wider range of references. The work hopes, as its main result, to provide a critical and in-depth geographical analysis that answers the central question about the mass incarceration of Black women in Brazil.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1657619 - ANITA LOUREIRO DE OLIVEIRA
Interna - 1253262 - GENY FERREIRA GUIMARAES
Externa à Instituição - MARIA MADALENA LEMES MENDES