Existências insurgentes: reverberações das experiências de subjetivação política no cotidiano de mulheres engajadas

Abstract

In this thesis, we study the experiences of political subjectivation and their reverberations in the everyday life engagement of women who share the militant experience in the World March of Women (WMW), in Caxias do Sul. We carried out our work based on the following questions: do the experiences of dissent concerning the social location of becoming a woman generate experiences of political subjectivation? If so, how do these experiences reverberate in everyday political engagement? In this process, how does the change of oneself and the surroundings happen? In the meantime, we produced research data through comprehensive interviews (KAUFMANN, 2013) with five militant women in the WMW and sharing time (FABIAN, 2006) in the interactive observation of the activities promoted by the group, for one year. We guided the research based on the concepts of experience and everyday life, discussed mainly by Thompson (1981, 2002, 2020) and Heller (2014), and the concepts of politics, subjectivation, and distribution of the sensitive based on Rancière (1996a, 1996b, 2005, 2014). Beyond that, we reflected on the educational principles of social movements and their formative prospective for militant people (GOMES, 2017; ARROYO, 2003). We organized this thesis to dedicate a narrative space to each of the interviewees, considering that each existence represents a way to arise, to stand up to the political and social order, even if sharing a world common conception. In the meantime, we analyzed the aspects of (dis)identification, time and space of political subjectivation, and the political engagement narrated and observed about the experience of the research participants. Thus, we developed our definition of the political engagement concept in the research. We considered that the research participants represent insurgent forms of existence in the singularity of their militant trajectories. In other words, they present ways of living that have the resistance to different oppressions linked to their social locations and their sociopolitical context as a principle. Thereby, we defended the thesis that the experiences of dissent on social location of becoming a woman, in the formative prospective of political subjectivation, create the change of oneself and the surroundings that reverberate in everyday pollical engagement. We conclude that the diversity in the studied political trajectories demonstrates that engagement in a given cause does not produce and is not produced by homogeneous people and does not translate into emancipation formulas. By reverberating the change of themselves in their family, work, and leisure relationships, these women strain the prevailing value systems in their environments, enabling the occurrence of microsocial changes, without necessarily presenting remarkable ruptures. In this way, they act in the transformation of everyday life through the formative prospective of political subjectivation, in the possibility of dreaming a common dream, a utopia that mobilizes them to walk together in one direction, but in the experience of the uniqueness of their lives.