Entre ser... Rede, jovem e sujeito político: possibilidades de subjetivação política nos cenários do HIV/Aids no Brasil

Abstract

The present thesis has aimed to investigate possibilities of political subjectivation a tRedes de Jovens Vivendo com HIV/Aids (Networks of Young People Living with HIV/Aids) in Brazil and their (possible) constitution as a political subject. The research positions itself in front of a complex theoretical, methodological and conceptual field and assumes as epistemological orientation the production of Jacques Rancière about the dissensus dimension of politics. In the contemporary panorama of HIV/Aids, some paths that have become relevant in the history of the epidemic in the country are addressed, especially those focused on the youth living with the virus. In this sense, attention is focused on issues such as: processes involving the participation of organised civil society in HIV/Aids prevention policies; the institutional relations that constructed the logic of agreement and assimilation with the State; the valorisation of a technical rationality from the increment of new prevention technologies; and the position of youth and their cooperative articulation in these fields. In this study, the youth is understood as a field crossed by interventions, mainly in its relationship with the State, questioning logics of appropriation and a guarded protagonism. Against this background, Ethnography is taken as a methodological design, using participant observation, field diary and (in)formal conversations to access the reality of the Redes de Jovens Vivendo com HIV/Aids. It from the ethnographic field, five topics of analytical synthesis were unfolded: 1) Meetings, spaces and relationships; 2) About living and surviving with HIV/Aids and making/being Redes; 3) Institutions, agreements and Redes; 4) From social participation to political subjectivation; 5) Between ―being Rede‖, ―being young‖ and ―being a political subject‖. Such synthesis concentrates on the division between the regime of the police and the politics and the possibilities of rupture in the sensible order that opportune the political subjectivation. As a conclusion, the possible occurrence of Redes as a political subject is related to an inversion produced about its own existence. From this inversion provoked by actions of recognition of the dissent, or of naming a polemic, an interval occurs in the sensible ordering and the naturalised logics of the hierarchies in the political scenario of Aids. For the political subject is precisely in the condition of keeping ―in between‖, escaping from the logic that assimilates it as part of the standard process and neutralises its effects. Through the (de)identification, it is understood that it is in the knot between being young, being Redes and being a political subject, that it becomes possible to reinvent the modes of politics.