Law, exception and security in the repression of the June 2013 protests in São Paulo

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of the strategies and political subjects engaged in the protests in June 2013, and its repression by the State, considering (a) the meaning of the techniques used by the State to repress the protests and the meaning of the techniques used by social movements and institutions to resist to that repression; and (b) the different sets of relations between political subjects and those techniques of repression and resistance.

Keywords:
Protest; Repression; Social Movements