http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23846 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:18:03 GMT 2026-06-15T23:18:03Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86769 Título: As tramas das emoções nos Círculos de Construção de Paz: entre corpos, vozes e objetos que falam Autor(es): Silva, Maria Cristiane Lopes da Abstract: This dissertation investigates the weavings of emotions in Peacebuilding Circles (PBC), understood as entanglements interwoven through voices, gestures, silences, tears, laughter, and the participants’ relationships with the objects that compose the ritual. The Circles are approached as spaces for dialogue organized through their own structure, sustained by elements such as the talking piece, the centerpiece, and the role of the facilitator, which guide interaction and the circulation of speech. The investigation was developed across three empirical fields — Educational, Academic, and Health — constituted throughout the research process because they presented relevant indications for understanding the phenomenon under study. The objective was to understand how the weavings of emotions are manifested in the expressions, discourses, and objects that emerge and acquire meaning within the ritual of the Circles. The methodology adopted was qualitative in nature, with a heuristic attentive to details, guided by participant observation, field diary records, in-depth conversations, and an exploratory questionnaire, all oriented by the method of interpreting clues, which privileges details, traces, and apparently discreet signs of the phenomenon. The theoretical framework articulated contributions from the Sociology and Anthropology of emotions, in dialogue with ritual studies and with the foundations of PBC grounded in Restorative Justice (RJ). The results seem to indicate that emotions are expressed in multifaceted ways, both through what is said, materialized in the shared narratives, and through what remains unsaid, revealed in silences, bodily movements, gazes, and tears that permeate the encounter. Emotional experiences proved to be singular, often produced through interactions among participants and mediated by the ritual structure of the PBC. It is concluded that the weavings of emotions appear to configure dynamic and relational processes, continuously renewed within the ritual, which allows the understanding of the Circles as spaces in which emotions are organized, expressed, and transformed throughout the course of social interaction. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86769 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86550 Título: Eu Startup: a sutil arte de tornar-se empreendedor e o novo fantasma do capitalismo Autor(es): Thé, Raul da Fonseca Silva Abstract: This work seeks to discuss the spread of entrepreneurial language throughout society, aiming to understand what entrepreneurship is and what it means to be an entrepreneur, within the framework of becoming. To this end, it associates two traditions with sociology, the conflict tradition and the symbolic interactionist tradition, to reformulate the Weberian interpretative scheme resulting from the discussion on the use of scale change for comprehensive processes, the micro-macro problem. In order to elaborate a scheme that contemplates, in a wave-like manner, structure, mobilized ideas, the dispute over the interiority of individuals, practices of adaptation and production of subjectivities, and the elaboration of societal reconstruction. The literature was consulted to observe the processes of reformulation of capitalism since the acute crisis of liberalism and the reformulation of liberalism into neoliberalism; passing through the constitution and deconstruction of passive welfare state and the process of hegemony of austro-american neoliberalism from the 1970 onwards; the text discuss the role of the active welfare state (workfare) and the establishment of the warfare state, both in the realm of sociability and austerity. It also debates the tradition of the “spirit of capitalism” in the social sciences, its reinterpretations, and research practices concerning it. Furthermore, it explore this unknown present, participating in both neoliberal hegemony and the reconfigurations of the “Spirit” — entrepreneurship. It finds that the literature fails to define it, much less see it as a permanent reflexive activity, a process of becoming. The narrative versions of entrepreneurship—emic, emic, and aesthetic—were consulted to better understand the scope of the reworking of the dispute over subjectivities in current capitalism and how this simultaneously shapes interiorities and societies/the State through the use of the language of becoming an entrepreneur. Through this, it is understood that capitalism reconfigures itself, not in another guise of the well-defined spirit of capitalism, but, through restlessness, signifying emptiness, and haunting, in the guise of the ghost of capitalism. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86550 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86482 Título: A virtualização de práticas religiosas pentecostais na era digital Autor(es): Paiva, Daniele Alves Abstract: This study examines how contemporary Pentecostalism has produced new forms of religious sociability through the virtualization of its practices, incorporating digital technologies from other fields of social activity. A form of virtualized Pentecostalism has emerged as a significant phenomenon within the Pentecostal Christian religious landscape at the turn of the millennium, characterized by the adaptation of traditional Pentecostal practices to digital and virtualized environments. The emergence of this phenomenon is understood as the outcome of a long historical process involving successive abstractions and resignifications of the meanings of temple, presence, and access to the sacred. The empirical research was conducted across physical and virtual fields. The physical field comprised in-person visits to places of worship to observe religious rituals and interact with believers, including semi-structured, face-to-face interviews and questionnaires administered via Google Forms. The digital field involved the observation of Instagram profiles, participation in a WhatsApp group, and visits to a virtual church using an avatar to attend worship services. According to the evangelical participants, online worship services transmitted via live streaming and participation in WhatsApp support groups were among the primary strategies for coping with social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and for maintaining religious practices. Beyond the intensive use of digital social networks, some churches implemented more structured processes of virtualization, exemplified by the creation of the virtual church Lagoverso as a virtual replica of a physical church. The study argues that virtualization exceeds the mere digitalization of social relations, as digitally mediated processes aim not only to connect individuals and generate new forms of interaction, but above all to produce immersive and quasi-autonomous virtual environments governed by their own rules of sociability and distinctive modes of religious practice. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86482 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86374 Título: Plataformas digitais e disputas políticas: da ascensão da extrema-direita ao enfrentamento proposto pela esquerda brasileira Autor(es): Martins, Maria Clara Ribeiro Abstract: This thesis investigates the political disputes that occur on digital platforms in the contemporary Brazilian context, focusing on the consolidation of the far-right in these spaces and the strategies of confrontation developed by the left. The study aims to analyze digital platforms not only as means of communication, but as products of the capitalist economy and as instruments that express the private interests of their owners, whose economic and political orientations materialize in the algorithmic structure and functioning. With a time frame focused primarily on the 2022 election period, the research takes platform X (formerly Twitter) as its main field of observation, analyzing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro as privileged agents in the political dispute that takes place in this space. Methodologically, the investigation is based on the constitution of a collection of data extracted from the platform, combined with the analysis of the content composed of publications, interactions, and narratives, interpreted from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is argued that the economic and political orientations of digital platforms favor certain forms of political action, especially the modus operandi of the far-right, which uses digital resources as mechanisms for mobilizing and uniting its electoral base, highlighting a structural asymmetry in these spaces. Given this scenario, and seeking to reverse the losses resulting from the 2018 electoral defeat, the Brazilian left is promoting a political restructuring in the 2022 election, through: 1) a confrontation marked by professionalization in the use of media; 2) the mobilization of a legal apparatus aimed at neutralizing opposing strategies; 3) the organization of a digital support network capable of contesting narratives in the so-called "digital guerrilla warfare"; and 4) the phenomenon known as cultural Janonism. Finally, it is evident that political disputes on digital platforms are not limited to election periods, constituting a permanent field of conflict and subject to changes that highlight its dynamic nature. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86374 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z