Bodies and Subjectivities: Analysis of Embodiment Processes in the Bears of Espírito Santo
Name: PAULO RODRIGUES CERQUEIRA
Publication date: 10/03/2014
Advisor:
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Role |
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| ELOÍSIO MOULIN DE SOUZA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| ELOÍSIO MOULIN DE SOUZA | Advisor * |
| MÔNICA DE FÁTIMA BIANCO | Internal Examiner * |
| PRISCILLA DE OLIVEIRA MARTINS DA SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This research analyzes processes of subjectivation of homossexual men named bears. We bring the debates of bodies to explicit their agencies on social imagetic productions of subjetcs, also on the processes that they build themselves. These processes do not presuppose an autonomous subject because organized knowledges and forces operating in our society interfere on them (FOUCAULT, 2003). Therefore, we consider analytics of power proposed by Michel Foucault (1995), Judith Butler (2010) and Laclau and Mouffe (1987) to criticize the passive, universal and objective notions of bodies on hegemonic approaches in the field of Administrations Studies and to analyze the objectivations of bodies only in relation to the construction of subjetics through social, historical and political processes of embodiments. This work is based on a qualitative research and the data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews with 19 participants that live in the brazilian state of Espírito Santo. The data were analyzed considering the poststructuralist perspective of discourse studies given the Laclaudian and Foucauldian approaches. The research concludes that the bear discourse overdetermines dispersed practices in a field of homosexualities by constructing a "masculine" body scheme. This scheme becomes one of the hegemonic LGBT practices and therefore is the first to be enacted on subjectification processes by the participants. However, these processes are not fully realized, neither eliminates particularities and contingencies that parody the behavioral demands of identities builds.
