Memory and corruption in the collor de mello case: the judgement of conviction as an expression of justice or vengeance
International Journal of Development Research
Memory and corruption in the collor de mello case: the judgement of conviction as an expression of justice or vengeance
Received 09th February, 2019; Received in revised form 21st March, 2019; Accepted 19th April, 2019; Published online 29th May, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Glauber Lacerda Santos and Maria da Conceição Fonseca-Silva. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this essay, we present results of the research developed in the ambit of the Research Group on Discourse Analysis (Grupo de PesquisaemAnálise de Discurso, or GPADis). We discuss the issue of corruption, both in relation to memory and vis-à-vis the act of judging, articulating the categories abuse of memory, sense of justice and spirit of vengeance. For this purpose, we turn our attention to the analysis of the case of former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello, known as the Collor case, which can be considered paradigmatic in the conjugation of certain elements that evidence the functioning of the aforementioned concepts. The process of conducting a further analysis of this case is justified by the need to understand how the act of judging functions in contexts of abuse of memory, and also how this ultimate act of a judicial procedure can serve the purposes of justice or vengeance.
