THE USE OF FEAR IN BIOPOLITICS AND THE VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM
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Biopower, Criminal Law, Fear, Right to Freedom, StereotypesAbstract
This study will discuss the concept of biopower as used by Michel Foucault, as well as the disciplines that are used to guarantee it, including the stimulation and spread of fear, and how such methods affect the personality right to freedom. The problem lies in the fact that fear is one of the disciplines of biopower, being applied to control individuals, including using criminal law to legitimize such persecution, reducing them to subjects of obedience, subjection, and alienation. The objective is to investigate how the personality right to freedom is affected, both for those persecuted as targets of unjustifiable fear and for others who are normalized, whose freedoms of conscience and self-determination are impaired due to the imposition of false prejudices and stigmas. The method to be used for the research will be deductive, starting from the initial premise that fear is an innate feeling in people and that it is used as a tool of control. Based on this inference, the works of Michel Foucault and other authors on biopower, its disciplines, and effects will be analyzed. Next, there will be a study of marginalized and vulnerable people, as well as works that discuss the selection of these social groups as sources of fear, with the aim of researching whether there is a correlation between biopower and the stimulation of fear in these people. The research concludes that states and established organizations consciously and voluntarily choose certain social groups to be targets of fear instilled in societies in order to increase their control, since the population tends to give up individual freedoms in favor of protection from their fears.
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