Cartografia de bricolagens, alianças e produção do comum: pesquisa participativa decolonial com coletivos juvenis em Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

The present doctoral thesis aims to map the process of decolonial participatory research carried out with young researchers from the Grande Bom Jardim territory about their own peripheral cultural practices, from a qualitative methodological study of Research-Intervention, allied to Critical Participatory Action Research. The mapped research process on peripheral cultural practices includes the various artistic productions, experienced by juvenile collectives as subjective polyphonic devices present in the periphery. The research proposes to establish a debate with young researchers in decolonial participatory research. Thus, the following question-problem was formulated: How to produce a cartography with young people from the Grande Bom Jardim territory about their own peripheral cultural practices can constitute a decolonial analytical device in participatory research? For the theoretical-analytical development we were guided by the philosophy of difference and post-structuralism, decolonial epistemologies and Social Psychology. The field research was linked to the public selection of the Cultural Centre Bom Jardim in 2020 for Research Laboratories of Memory and Cultural Heritage entitled "Social Cartography of peripheral cultural practices of the youth of Greater Bom Jardim in Fortaleza", between October 2020 and February 2021. The research was funded by the Secretariat of Culture of the State of Ceará through the State Fund to Combat Poverty. Methodologically, the research took place in a hybrid format (online and face-to-face), and has been approved by the UFC Ethics Committee under opinion no. 4.470.814. The research was carried out in Grande Bom Jardim, which is one of the peripheries of Fortaleza, and led by a group of young researchers, two of whom are residents of the territory. The methodological tools used are: online questionnaire, focus group and field diary. The research was divided into: Axis I: Using the Google Forms questionnaire: 49 answers were obtained. Axis II: 9 discussion groups with youth collectives. Axle III: Analysis of the process with the proponent researchers. Axle IV: Collective production of a handmade e-book of restitution. The Atlas Ti software version 8.4.2 and the perspective of content analysis and cartography were used to analyse the qualitative data. The discussions summon us to foster decolonial participatory research as a production of knowledge in Psychology that inseparates the ethos of researcher and subject from their own micropolitics. The fact that young researchers living in the periphery and members of youth collectives conceive research as a device for the transformation of reality and the invention of artistic practices has enabled their frontier places - researchers and art producers - to assume a militancy as expression and memory in the periphery. Therefore, decolonial participatory research is constituted as an ethos of alliances, production of the common and of resistance in the peripheralized territory.