A violência e as experiências coletivas de conflito Violence and Collective Conflict Experiences La violence et les expériences collectives de conflit

As mobiliza es coletivas emergentes, os distúrbios urbanos e as concentra es espontaneas parecem indicar que o cenário do conflito social e o sentido da violência que as acompanham adquirem dimens es diferentes na atualidade. Neste contexto, o presente trabalho procura analisar os eventuais nexos existentes entre a violência e as aqui denominadas experiências coletivas de conflito. Valendo se das discuss es sobre violência, conflito, a es coletivas e “defini o de uma situa o”, a proposta é pensar até que ponto a violência parece constituir se em um ingrediente muito importante na constru o do sentido social das a es coletivas contemporaneas, bem como no estabelecimento de um cenário de conflituosidade social preciso e localizável. Emerging collective mobilizations, urban riots and spontaneous concentrations seem to indicate that the scenario of social conflict and the sense of violence that goes along with them have different dimensions nowadays. Thus, the present paper aims to analyse the connections that might exist between violence and what is here called collective experiences of conflict. Taking into account discussions on violence, conflict, collective actions and the “definition of a situation”, the author discusses the extent to which violence is an important element in the construction of the social meaning of contemporary collective actions, as well as in the establishment of a specific and situated scenario of social conflictiveness. Les mobilisations collectives émergentes, les désordres urbains et les concentrations spontanées semblent indiquer que le scénario du conflit social et le sens de violence qui les accompagnent, prennent des dimensions différentes de nos jours. Dans ce contexte, le présent travail vise à analyser les éventuelles connexions existantes entre la violence et ce que nous appelons ici les expériences collectives de conflit. Partant des débats sur la violence, le conflit, les actions collectives et la “définition d’une situation”, notre proposition est celle de penser jusqu’à quel point la violence semble se constituer comme un ingrédient très important dans la construction du sens social des actions collectives contemporaines, tout autant que dans l’établissement d’un scénario de conflictualité sociale précis et localisable.