From subjective feelings to objective evidence: an ethnography of the (police and anthropological) investigative gaze before child pornography images
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87757Keywords:
Child pornography, emotions, investigative gaze, ethnog- raphy, police.Abstract
This paper aims to discuss the emotional effects and the aesthetic reconfigurations resulting from direct contact with scenes of “child pornography” within the context of Brazilian Federal Police investigations. Rather than a self-reflexive analysis of the researcher’s feelings, this article aims to illustrate how emotion management and perspective shifts (from “horror” to “crime evidence”) constitute some of the anthropological re- search’s fundamental aspects, offering the first clues about how the police investigative gaze (re)signifies “child pornography” images. Furthermore, these represent a learning process that is fundamental to the creation of the conditions of not only psychological but above all epistemological possibility to the accomplishment of the field research in this ethnographical context.
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