Mothers and struggles for justice. A meeting point between knowledge production, activism and democracy

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Keywords:

madres, familiares, Estado, movimientos, género.

Abstract

The article discusses some of the relationships between mothers and State processes, especially in view of the movements of mothers and family members of victims of institutional violence, the inaugural analyzes in this regard in Brazilian social sciences, the implications of these mothers and family members in knowledge production, and the democratic crisis that we are going through. In the first section of the article, we return to fundamental research that has constituted the field of studies which think since the involvement of mothers in movements for rights and justice. The second section of the article presents some of the developments, in our own research, of this involvement and the shared knowledge production between researchers and what is usually called as “interlocutors”. The last section of the article discusses the positionality of the movements of mothers and family members of victims of violence in what has been called the "Brazilian democratic crisis". Thereby, we seek to offer a contribution to the field of research that has been, for some time now, focused on the reciprocal production between gender and the State.

Author Biography

Juliana Farias, PPCIS/UERJ

Juliana Farias possui graduação em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), mestrado em Ciências Sociais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da mesma universidade (PPCIS/Uerj) e doutorado em Ciências Humanas (Sociologia) pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - PPGSA/UFRJ. Atualmente realiza pós-doutorado no PPCIS/Uerj, com bolsa do Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (CAPES).

Published

2020-12-30

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