GOVERNMENTALIZED CITIZENSHIP: a case study of the “Unidades Paraná Seguro” in Curitiba

This paper describes the citizenship profile circumscribed by the hybrid policy developed within the “Unidades Paraná Seguro” program. Operating between 2012 and 2015, the program installed Military Police bases in peripheral metropolitan territories affected by high crime rates to reduce them and develop citizenship among the vulnerable population. A documentary and bibliographic research on its context of implementation was conducted based on post-structuralist and post-workerist theoretical frameworks, to evaluate if policing was converted into bioeconomic government, thus transforming the very concept of citizenship. Results describe a governmentalized citizenship which does not expand democratic participation, but rather establishes control, regulations and neoliberal techniques of subjectivation, such as the active search for work through professionalization and underemployment, or the promotion of precarious self-entrepreneurship.