SOCIO-SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND STUDENT MOVEMENTS: a comparative study between the União Nacional dos Estudantes and the Federación Universitaria Argentina

• Grant number: 22/13847-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2023
• End date: February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Bernardo Mançano Fernandes
• Grantee: Maria Eduarda Grecco Bejarano Suenaga
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this research we seek to study how the União Nacional dos Estudantes (UNE) and the Federación Universitaria Argentina (FUA) are producers and mediators of spaces through Common Socio-spatial Technologies (TSECom), relating them to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Through the methodology used in REDE DATALUTA Brasil and REDE DATALUTA Argentina, news gathering through the Google Alert tool and systematization of data by the JotForms platform according to the glossaries produced by the team having the database as the final product, we can analyze in scale international the performance of these student movements and the production of TSECom to meet their agendas. Conventional Socio-spatial Technologies are products of academic and popular knowledge, used to spatialize the agendas of socio-spatial movements and build their spatialities based on overcoming inequality. The UNE and the FUA, in their respective countries, are the maximum entities of student representation, being responsible, in part, for the directions that the student movement will follow in the political agenda. In this way, understanding how both student movements organize, act and use the TSECom is necessary to understand the dispute for quality education in its multidimensional form.