Entre o governo e a resistência: uma análise do discurso do protagonismo juvenil

Abstract

The present study is a master's degree research linked to the Psychology Postgraduate Program of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora that deals with the themes: poor youth and political participation in the context of a Non-Governmental Organization. The research had as general objective analyze the discourses about youth protagonism that crosses socio-cultural practices experienced by young people from Zona da Mata Mineira and its consequences for youth political participation. As a methodological delineation, was chosen the qualitative approach, exploratory of ethnographic inspiration in form of case study. The investigation had as analysis focus, two social projects developed by a NGO, involving two cultural expressions: music (whose modality is rap) and dance (including the modalities of hip hop, funk and axé). The territorial spaces in which the projects were developed, are the center of the city and one periphery, respectively. For the development of the study was adopted as a theoretical reference the works of Michel Foucault and his methodological perspectives of Discourse Analysis. To expand the possibilities of interaction and understanding of social dynamics, were used different tools such as: participant observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. In the delimitation for this dissertation, the constructed analyzes were focused around three analytical axes, namely: 1) Psychosocial aspects and vulnerabilities experienced by young people; 2) Analysis of the perspectives of the collaborators who works in the NGO about the youth protagonism; 3) The effects of power of practices developed by the NGO for the political participation of young people. Through the study development, it was possible to verify that the youth experiences and the emergence possibilities of young people as agents of political action are traversed by hierarchies, both in the internal context of the developed practices as the external of them, which points to the need to consider the crossings of social markers that at the same time forge the construction of collective identities, operate as subordination axes. Through the cross-sectional view, it was possible to verify that in the scope of the researched socio-cultural practices, the modes of government and co-optation of the youths conflict with the possibilities of assemblages and resistances in front of situations of subordination and oppression.