Confrontations for life: anti-abortion mobilizations in contemporary Brazil

• Grant number: 14/13558-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Débora Alves Maciel
• Grantee: Patricia Jimenez Rezende
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research focuses on the formation of the National Citizens Movement for Life - Brazil without Abortion, in 2006, in the context of regulation of sexual and reproductive rights in Brazil, beginning in the Lula government. The aim is to know the formation and dynamics of anti-abortion mobilizations as conter movement to the movement of pro-life groups and state policies decriminalization. Based on the theory of the political process, the research will focus the political-institutional training environment countermovement (opportunities and political constraints), organizations, institutions, networks and campaigns that support mobilization (mobilization structures), the meanings and discursive strategies and the repertoire of collective action. Finally, the project ambition also is to identify and assess the impact of anti-abortion demonstrations about the ongoing process of regulation of abortion in Brazil. (AU)