Embedded conflict: the body as surface of urban conflicts lived in compliance with socio-educational measure

• Grant number: 16/01661-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2016
• End date: February 28, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Marta Teresa da Silva Arretche
• Grantee: Janaina Maldonado Guerra da Cunha
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies, AP.CEPID

Abstract

From the study of embodiment of adolescents in conflict with the law aims to think how the urban conflict is expressed in its body construction, oris, what their bodies indicate about these urban tensions. Research is supported by field work that realize since the early 2015 in a Socio-Educational Measures program offered by a Salesian work in the city ofSao Carlos, Sao Paulo. The entry field is given from an extension project linked to Na Margem - Center for Urban Research of the Department of Sociology the UFSCar. Assuming that space and bodies connect, aims to investigate how the city is produced in the bodies and, dialectically, as produces. More Specifically, this research aims to describe this body empirically, of way to present the signs incorporating conflicts of the social world in which his subjects are inscribed. The body then figure as an agent that challenges and dialogues, and by this incorporation designed ambivalent manner, with insertions and an esthetic meanings that make and tightens the city in which they live. (AU)