In this article, we examine how incarceration and practices of extermination foster the emergence of a multifaceted political field that mobilizes collectives, social movements and activists. Our central objective consists in the construction of an analytical plan to incorporate these political movements in the field of prison studies, demonstrating how incarceration, together with other punitive devices, constitutes a point of articulation and transformation of these same movements. We take as empirical reference experiences of political articulation in São Paulo, highlighting the centrality that prison acquires in the agenda of these articulations and the protagonism that the victims of state violence acquire in them. In addition to documentary research, the analyzes are based on the authors’ engagement in these movements. At the heart of these many articulations, we are faced with the defense of life – life as value and as a field of conflict.
Prison; Mass imprisonment; Extermination; State; Activism; Politics