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A Linguagem como Instrumento de Violência Cultural | Raquel Cabral | TEDxUNESPBauru


What is peace?
certainly ask if each of
You here in this room, what is peace to
what images would come to the mind of
each of you and if I went further and
I asked you what violence is
with the images are emerging the mind of
you
When I say the word violence
doing this exercise
now think and which of these two images
and which of these two words comes the
more pictures of
representations and what are the most
several more or violence
keep this information soon
Let’s vote for her but she’s going to be very
important to think peace and
violence in our society
contemporary
but before I talk about it I
I would like to tell a story a
history and joaquim joaquim is actually
my little boy of almost two years or
How do you like to call him in high school?
joca ro the ranking since he is half
half spanish and joaquim
Ever since she was born she has always heard stories
and Unusual Fairy Tales
deconstructed and reinvented
sought to reverse the logic of violence
in our culture
For Joaquim, the snow white was a
warrior who defends the forest of
environmental degradation
It even seems like I’m a little nerdy mother.
huh
but in fact my concern was
course
Joaquim was building his
repertoire he is still a child of
two years
but something told me it tells me that certainly
he will be a child with a new
sensitivity and will question the
violence that is also within the
our culture in our daily life in the
our day to day
and that’s how we learned to look
for the children’s songs or I threw the stick
no cat
but the cat did not actually die if
turned into I played ball with the
cat and the cat hid and so we
we were creating another logic so that
he could look at the world not a bubble
isolated from the world of conflicts
society’s own reality imposes on
contrary
our intention is that it be a
child prepared for the world to
diversity for violence and that it is
able to question the structures of
violence that is there
naturalized in our culture is
From that, I introduce myself to
you are raquel
I’m a researcher at Unesp and
university of paulista in bauru
researcher in studies for peace and
Communication
and that’s what I’m thinking about
you my line of research the
studies for peace that as an area of
knowledge and science has almost 100
something very very recent very
when we talk about science and
Brazil is still the latest but
has a fundamental concern that is
rightly think of the violence that is
rooted in our
language
in what we
we say that we produce
we read we see in the movie and that
not part of our repertoire of
now but for centuries and millennia we
we are being educated in a culture of
violence
you remember the images I asked
for you to think about peace and violence
early on certainly many of
you might say that you found a
greater diversity of representations of
images
when I said the word violence
I wonder why
will it be something free will we
we learn to understand more
violence than more peace.
representations on violence in
our society and especially in the
last century
intensification of the means of
communication than from behind and if this
a truth as it legitimizes itself as
it is built in our society is
from this I came to a
deep inquiry in my area of
research studies as a communicator
when I got to these philosophers
motif and horkheimer from the
communication and they will say this
that quote for me was a marker of
waters
they said in 47 of last century
machines to weapons and finally the
language are the tools that
legitimize domination and there I established
an immediate metaphorical relationship
first the machines the machines would be
the metaphor of our production system
production chain in the capital system
which will necessarily produce
inequality
ultimately in this system of capital is
there must be human surplus
in fact the capital system is
based on the inequality of those
which holds the means of production and those
who sell their labor power
then you understand that this was a mechanism
of domination and arms to arms would be
a metaphor for our system of
social control of ideological apparatuses
from the state we created to control
our society just think of the
and the police who have the
legitimacy of the use of force for
control of our society but something that
even though I am
communicator was just thinking about
because language is an instrument of
domination of violence because
Communication also produces violence was
questioning me about these issues that
I even went to studies for peace in
one of the most important documents of
nations united through his arm is
materialized in Unesco as being the
even if it takes care of the subjects of education
culture and science was the manifesto of
seville a document produced by
medical scientists geneticists biologists
worried about the world.
with a fundamental question after all we
humans are born violent
we can say that the baby at birth
is determined to be an individual
violent or we learn to be
violence and then making a distinction
between violence and aggression
was starting 10 of these questions
that this international conference
produced this important document that
will say clearly no
there is nothing in our human biology
dna that determines that we
we were born violent as some theories
scientists in the last century have tried
evidence even stating that
there would be an Iraqization of races and
ethnicities and cultures and that some
individuals of this society would be
fatally determined to disappear
and there is justification for several violent actions
in our human history to slavery
the extermination of indigenous even
violence that we see today in
minorities who often suffer from
in our societies.
the whole world and it was then
questioning what in fact the
manifest document of seville will say
violence is in fact a condition
that is not found in the other
animals
I’ve never seen a lion build a weapon
to hurt the other lion
In this sense I can think that the
aggressiveness other than violence
violence legitimized by the mechanisms
is called by the policy itself.
that’s when I got to that gentleman
nice and johann set the tone
one of the founding fathers of this line
search and still currently active
which in the 1960s will be the first
International Research Institute for
peace and will question and will say we
yes we need to think peace but
understanding the mechanisms of violence
Why barbarians like this happened?
were real and were also legitimized and
naturalized by communication through
our language
it is enough to think for example what
done what hitler did
with his propaganda minister very
concerned with the themes of communication
such as social control through the cinema
of the literature radio and is starting
that the kid will reach up to three
models of violence would be the
violence that violence is
I can identify the victim and
assailant and I can record filming
photographing can be a violence
domestic
the second violence to violence
systemic and structural is that in which
that I can only see the victims
because the aggressors are behind the
social systems are diffuse opaque
I can get a queue of
unemployed, for example, who are
victims of an unequal system
based on capital accumulation
and for yes boy will say that between the
three
this is the most subtle violence but it is
the one that will naturalize and legitimize
the other two
cultural violence because it is
present in our daily life in the
our language in expressions
colloquialisms in our popular sayings
in literature films, which means
for example when I say the word or
When I speak the expression, you ‘re in the
my blacklist
You must have heard this already or I
I had a black day or, for example,
thing is black on what it means and what
the implication of thinking and associate
black color something negative in a society
multicultural approach such as ours in which
Most of the population has
offspring
I am legitimizing from my
my language
communication mechanisms of naturalization
and exclusion from certain that
individuals against certain point
certain cultures which ethnicities
means for example singing the song to
as I threw the stick at the
cat
but the cat did not die as an implication
to think with the implication that
associate the carnation fought with the rose
under a balcony the clove left
wounded and the shattered rose
there’s always a worse part for the woman, right?
a patriarchal society to violence
direct naturalization in our culture and
which also imposes violence against
own men because if it is not
hetero he is not white
if he is not successful he too
is out of this model
and then we begin to understand that there is
a normalization of language
and of the mechanisms of violence that
in our culture
and in a country like ours that means
to legitimize violence in our language
against the black man against the woman
surveys show datafolha search
2017 indicates that 503 women suffer from
some kind of physical violence every
time in brazil
or this data from Unesco Brazil 2012
indicate that the risk of a black person
will be murdered in Brazil is twice
and a half bigger than a white person
this already shows that there is indeed a
violence that goes through language and
manifests itself in society through
of direct and structural violence
It is in this sense that I ask you if
The war on violence is indeed a
human phenomenon
how it legitimizes itself and then when
studies for peace we will point out that it is
through our culture of our
our social discourses of the arts of
ideology of religion and even our
own science
we know how much science also
dedicated to proving structures of
violence between certain societies
It is in this sense that I invite all
you rethink the language that you
used every day to deconstruct in
the formulas given
the popular sayings the expressions
you join the jokes that often
are reproductive
legitimizing and naturalizing violence
in our society
it is in this sense that we need
learn to deconstruct clove and rose
they did not need to fight
they could go out to play i shot the
also did not need to be on the cat.
so it can be deconstructed
like I said I’ve done it with
joaquim if he’s going to be a pacifist
I do not know but it will certainly be a
child who knows how to question
structures of violence that are
and naturalized in our society is
need to reinvent the world to look at the
world and be able to
to reinvent our language to our
Communication
thank you
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