“Firme e forte nessa luta”: modos de participação e re-existências de crianças em práticas culturais no contexto da pandemia

Abstract

Childhoods have been produced in markedly unequal planes, since they are crossed by markers of difference such as race, gender, class and territory, reverberating in their ways of participating in the daily lives where they live. The way in which this happens makes the interest in analyzing the ways of children's participation emerge as a challenge in the field of research, as this has been a theme historically invisible even in the field of studies on childhood. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the marks of inequality have intensified and reached children, more than resisting, it is necessary to forge practices of re-existence. In order to carry out this research, we joined two cultural practices that already had partnerships with the Research and Interventions Group on Violence and Subjectivity Productions (VIESES/UFC), these were the Biblioteca Comunitária Livro Livre Curió and the Non-Governmental Organization Fábrica de Imagens. Methodologically, we used a qualitative approach inspired by the perspective of inter(in)ventive research guided by the cartographic method, understanding the methodological and ethical challenges when researching children in pandemic times. Composing from the perspective of Social Psychology, from the problematizations that are produced by this field in relation to the subject of modernity, in relation to the marks of coloniality and the crossings of class, race, gender and territory that constitute the subjective modes of children. Composing from the perspective of Social Psychology, from the problematizations that are produced by this field in relation to the subject of modernity, in relation to the marks of coloniality and the crossings of class, race, gender and territory that constitute the subjective modes of children. The general objective of this research is to analyze the effects of children's ways of participating in cultural practices in the context of a pandemic in the implementation of processes of visibility and interpellation of practices of exclusion. Listing the following specific objectives: 1) Mapping the ways in which children participate through the Clube de Leitura of the Biblioteca Comunitária Livro Livre Curió and the Curso Audiovisual of the NGO Fábrica de Imagens; 2) Discuss what narratives children elaborate about their daily lives when participating in these activities; 3) To problematize which ways of being a child are produced from participation in these practices. The relevance of this study is made as it seeks to investigate childhoods, analyzing their modes of participation and practices of re-existence, in the search for understanding and expanding such conceptions together with childhoods. The analyzing scenes brought, among other aspects, how children's participation can generate disruptions in processes of invisibility and exclusion; the challenges of carrying out the field of research during the pandemic; how the inclusion of children in these activities allowed them to exercise other forms of political subjectivation; how being in these cultural practices forged the possibility of exercising other readings of the world that tension realities placed on themselves and their territories; the creation of collective insurgency devices from audiovisual productions.