Coração de mãe é terra que ninguém anda: um estudo das redes, 'tramas' e conflitos de mães em luto nas favelas à beira-mar

Abstract

Mrs. Ana, 65, slum resident, today mourns the death of his murdered son. Routine Dona Ana after two years of his son's death allows us to see the way she experiences and sees the pain and suffering of losing his son in violent situations. This feeling is shared by several mothers in mourning situation, like her, that communicate due to, among other situations, they are relatives, friends, neighbors, known and sometimes grew up together. They interact as a mother in mourning by pain resulting from loss, forming a micro-network of social and symbolic interactions (GOFFMAN, 1983) which takes place mainly through informal conversations and gossip practices (BAILEY, 1971). Communication between mothers grieving is limited, sometimes truncated and marked by silences (VENNA DAS 1999). One reason for this is that in some cases the children of a killed the children of others. Homicides of these young people are part of a network of homicides that are fed by the feeling of revenge. In this context, our goal is to analyze how mothers because of their dead children killed in death by firearms violence situation, experience, and experience represent mourning forming an informal network of mothers who works as a liaison approaches and disputes there between. The locus of our research was the Serviluz, located in the Quayside district in Fortaleza, CE, where we conducted an ethnographic research during the year 2014.