RT Article
T1 Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil
JF Punishment & society
VO 23
IS 5
SP 723
OP 740
A1 Darke, Sacha
A1 Khan, Omar Phoenix
A2 Khan, Omar Phoenix
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1779733429
AB The Portuguese empire brought inescapable violence to the indigenous communities of Brazil and to those it enslaved. Throughout the centuries of colonial subjugation, driven by the Iberian monarchical traditions of hierarchy, militarism and moral crusade, ‘just war’ narratives were employed to legitimate the use of violent legal and extra-legal measures against enslaved peoples and others deemed unruly or rebellious and a threat to colonial order. Two centuries after independence, Brazil remains at war with its ‘internal enemies’. Its justice practices continue to be characterised by colonial rationalisations. This paper illustrates the contemporary coloniality inherent in the carceral system from the moment of detention pre-trial through sentencing and imprisonment.
K1 Judicial internment
K1 Flagrante delicto
K1 Authoritarian oppression
K1 Just War
K1 Coloniality
K1 Brazil
DO 10.1177/14624745211041849