O ato de matar nas trajetórias juvenis: trocas e negociações identitárias de meninas envolvidas na prática de homicídio

Abstract

This research investigates the negociations and identity processes lived by girls envolved in killing practices. At first, the study has as reference the Educacional Center Aldaci Barbosa Mota, the universe in which I met these characters from 2007 to 2008.The teenagers lacked of private freedom in the Boarding School. However, in 2009 they were already displaced. The thesis is inspired in the identity vision proposed by the cultural studies. This vision is formulated by Stuart Hall. The Hall thought is based on the mobile cultural identity. This author emphasizes the fragment, contradictory and dynamic identity form. In this analysis I also consider the contribution of not continuos trajectory and dynamic identity formulated by Bourdieu and Stuart Hall. I circunscribe my identity comprehension of the processes in which teenagers are envolved in the killing atcs, considering the open analysis in construction of two autors referred early. It is considered the variety of their growing processes, from the pregnancy and including all their long historical trajectory. These categories helped to describe the methodology option. I constructed the snapshots of the teenagers who are the main characters of this history. In this case, I was inspired by Bernard Lahire who defends the idea of the construction of the “singular case studies”. This idea refuses the vision of the simple ilustration of the theorerical contexts but his analisys emphazies a methodological approach which considers how the subjetcs interpret their ways of living and experiences. In fact, this study is based on the contributions of Pierre Bourdieu, Stuart Hall, and the reinforcing of Bernard Lahire. In the qualitative analysis I join several ways of investigation. I considered the universe observation of the first place, the boarding school, I realized interviews, Photo session of the marks of bullets, machetes and tattoos designed on the bodies of young people, I visited young homes and possible meeting places of the characters, after they have left the previous institution. This way, the study investigates the construction of their representations, especially of mother, family, friends, district, sociability of the groups which they belong, the practice of killing, the relations drugs x crime, the dreams, the future perspectives, and so on.