Ethics, emotions and politics: the pathways of anthropological research in situations of violence, pain and suffering

• Grant number: 18/19357-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: March 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Cynthia Andersen Sarti
• Grantee: Michelli de Souza Ribeiro
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project intends to investigate the different forms of engagement and the different interests involved in the ethnographic encounter, considering, above all, the ethical and political dimension of the production of knowledge when carried out in sensitive "territories", that is, from the interlocution with subjects submitted to experiences of mourning, pain and suffering stemming from state political violence. In order to reflect on anthropological research that, although carried out in different ethnographic contexts, is based on such experiences, this research aims at apprehending how the dislocations between the ethical and the political, between professional responsibility and moral commitment arise in these researches, as well as apprehending the different "strategies" used by the researchers to deal with the "affections" resulting from this interlocution. (AU)