Os moradores do bairro Varjão/Rangel como empreendedores morais de um trauma cultural: reflexões etnográficas sobre ressentimento, ironia e recomposição moral da normalidade normativa

Abstract

This article analyzes the moral and emotional impacts on the everyday life of the residents of a popular neighborhood in the city of João Pessoa - PB, the Varjão / Rangel, of a banal and cruel crime, among equals, occurred in 2009. The analysis starts from the ethnographic reports of the residents of Varjão / Rangel in relation to the various moralizing attempts of their place of belonging, in order to try to understand the resentful and ironic stance that developed in the process of moral recomposition of the normative normality of the neighborhood since the outbreak of violence that shocked and embarrassed the residents of Varjão / Rangel. It is an ef-fort to understand the tense relationship of morality building and conduct imposition in relation to the moral uses of a situation of shame-disgrace from the moral enterprises, in the form of a cultural trauma, of the resi-dents of the neighborhood of Varjão / Rangel.