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Remembering, identity and social technologies: a sociological analysis of narratives of former inmates

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Author(s):
Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Marcos Cesar Alvarez; Tatiana Savoia Landini; Hermílio Pereira dos Santos Filho; Alessandra Teixeira
Advisor: Marcos Cesar Alvarez
Abstract

The research falls within the scope of Sociology of Memory (more broadly Sociology of Understanding). For that, we assume da relational, procedural, and interpretative approaches. We discussed processes of remembering and identity formation among former inmates of an institution for abandoned minors. Memory and identity are nested phenomena with biopsychosocial dimensions which have been studied among many areas. Thus, we also considered arguments from the Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Mind. The thesis focuses on three main discussions. The rst part of the thesis considers social, historical, and legal aspects of early institutionalization, abandonment, and stigma. The second part of the thesis focuses on ontological and epistemological issues of memory to propose a theoretical-methodological synthesis that enables us to understand mnemonic-identity processes over time. This discussion considers contemporary conditions regarding the impact and role of social technologies on sociability and knowledge production. The micropolitical dimension of mnemonic-identity processes of knowledge formation is approached by Sociology of Understanding. The third part of this work analyzes narratives on the institutional past of the former inmates who attended a governmental institution in the Brazilian countryside between the 1940s and 1990s. We carried out a procedural analysis, multi-data and multi-methods (ethnography, netnography, in-depth interview, extraction of textual data on social networks) in order to understand how collaborative mnemonic-identity processes play out over time emphasizing the ways some versions of the past are validated at the expense of others. With that, we veried that the mutual adjustments of understanding of past experiences are pushed to a coherent biographical narrative that attends specic emotional regimes. As a consequence, contradictory narratives to the ones validated by the network of former inmates are marginalized and silenced. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 16/16472-7 - Memory and identity in narrative of two groups of former internals of an institution for children
Grantee:Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate