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| Author(s): |
Taniele Rui
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2012-05-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Heloísa André Pontes;
Alba Maria Zaluar;
Gabriel de Santis Feltran;
Maria Filomena Gregori;
Ronaldo Almeida
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| Advisor: | Heloísa André Pontes; Simone Miziara Frangella |
| Abstract | |
The focus of this thesis is the noia, an endemic category of accusation and assumption that comprehends a particular segment of crack users: the ones that, because of several different social and individual circumstances, have kept a radical relationship with the substance - that results in an abject body. If in the domain of the concrete interaction, noia is a plastic category, such plasticity becomes very diffused in the public talks about crack. Around the abject body many agents and practices are created concerning the repression, assistance, religion, media, public health and moral judgment. Thus, the body of the noia radicalizes the otherness, because it creates a social type that is founded from the exclusion - that produces corporeal, social, spatial and symbolic borders. It also promotes the formation of welfare and repressive policies. Considering the permeability of corporal boundaries and its connection with social and symbolic processes, the main purpose of this thesis is to describe the potentiality of these abject bodies, through the ethnography carried out in the period of 2008-2010 in Campinas and São Paulo cities. I propose that these bodies are built from the interface with several factors: substance, drug scenes, networks of solidarity, artifacts, dealers, harm reduction workers and the public policies. The emphasis is not on the users' experiences, but on how these abject bodies produce managements, territorialities and otherness (AU) | |