Drugs and counterculture in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s

• Grant number: 15/00332-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Henrique Soares Carneiro
• Grantee: Júlio Delmanto Franklin de Matos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

During the 1960s and 1970s, there was a differentiation between the young people who were seen as protesters against the dictatorial government of that time: the left-wing militants, mostly supporters of the armed strategy of political action, and the so-called "desbundados", groups and individuals identified with ideas of the international counterculture movement. Based on the hypothesis that drug use and reflection about the change of consciousness used to have an important space in the thoughts and daily practices of the individuals who saw themselves as part of the Brazilian counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, this project aims to draw a polyphonic picture of how these assemblages were given for these people and the role that psychoactive substances held in their individual and collective trajectories. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MATOS, Júlio Delmanto Franklin de. Social history of LSD in Brazil: the first medicinal uses and the beginning of the repression. 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.