Casa 1 and its visibility-sheltering policy: citizenship and ways of making activism

• Grant number: 19/11876-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: October 21, 2019
• End date: April 16, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques
• Grantee: Jesser Rodolfo de Oliveira Ramos
• Supervisor: Miguel de Matos Castanheira do Vale de Almeida
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 18/09503-9 - Ethnography of a host home for LGBTs people, BP.MS

Abstract

In my Master's research I have tried to describe the ways of doing politics in the practices and daily dynamics of "Casa 1". More specifically, I have tried to show how in their different spaces the activities, assistance and events are made from a visibility- sheltering policy and whose goal is to construct "Casa 1" as a safe place of dialogue and openness for all the people who attend it. From my fieldwork data, I intend to analyze the ways of doing policy in "Casa 1" along with the different ways of LGBT activism. For this I intend to carry out a bibliographical review of researches which analyze LGBT movements as well as identity politics in different contexts. In this sense, the main contribution of this internship to my master's research is to compare different ways of activism in LGBT contexts with the political activism in "Casa 1". (AU)