Name: CHRISTIANNE LOBATO RAMALHO DA SILVA
Publication date: 20/07/2017
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALFREDO RODRIGUES LEITE DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALFREDO RODRIGUES LEITE DA SILVA | Advisor * |
| LETICIA DIAS FANTINEL | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: Handcraft is characterized as a practice, through which individuals develop ways of doing their daily lives through actions, that give rise to the events occurred in their survival. These ways of making crafts makes possible the constitution of an organization to social subjects, which is involved in a network of relationships, enables them to transform their reality through collective actions, constituting a network of connections that permeates the craftsmanship produced by the participating social actors, in a continuous dynamic that encompasses its context. The study of the daily practices that permeate a work with local relevance allows to understand specific dynamics of certain organizing, as in the case of the Filé embroidery handcraft of the state of Alagoas. In this sense, the objective of this dissertation is to understand the organizational process produced in the action nets resulting from the daily practices of Filé artisans in the neighborhood of Pontal da Barra, in the municipality of Maceió, state of Alagoas. The theoretical articulation that underlies the present discussion is based on Michel de Certeau's approach, contemplating the daily social actors involved and Barbara Czarniawska's action nets, making possible the analysis of the innumerable connections existing in the researched context. In empirical research, participant observation and shadowing were used as data collection techniques, as well as data collected by documents. The field work was carried out from June to October 2016, during which was realized a participant observation in two handcraft shops located in the neighborhood and the attendance of meetings in the Artisans' Association of Pontal da Barra was also performed. The shadowing took place for a period of six consecutive days with the Association president. To analyze the data, the content analysis was used in the thematic modality, with categories defined a posteriori. The results showed that the organizational process of the handcrafts studied is developed through the connection of several networks of action, acting in all phases of the process. The researched craft activity receives influences from the sensemaking from the initial phase, among which, when characterizing the practice as therapy, a sociomateriality is presented that is marked by the heterogeneity of the community and, mainly, by the interactions of individuals. Thus, its organizational process occurs through this inherent sociomateriality in a production process of its own that enables practitioners to oppose the terms imposed by society, while helping them to form their identity of Filé embroidery artisan from Pontal da Barra.
