Name: MARIANA LUÍSA DA COSTA LAGE
Publication date: 31/03/2020
Advisor:
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Role |
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| ELOÍSIO MOULIN DE SOUZA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
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| ALEXANDRE REIS ROSA | Internal Examiner * |
| ELOÍSIO MOULIN DE SOUZA | Advisor * |
| JULIANA CRISTINA TEIXEIRA | External Examiner * |
Summary: The present thesis aims understanding how the organisational identity formation processes take place in a black collective which articulates embodied political practices. The study created a dialogue with black decolonial feminist mode of critical explanation for its theoretical and analytical framework. In particular, the concepts of black beauty shame and "logic of critical explanation" were articulated to analyse the constitution of the gendered and racialised identity and how these discourses shape identity and organisational practices. The organisation chosen to develop the research was the Encrespa Collective, a social movement that values the use of curly/kinky hair, based in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The qualitative data analysis revealed the Encrespa Collectives identity formation process by the social, political and fantasmatic logics. The social logic questions the rules and norms taken for granted that govern social practices, the European hegemonic beauty. Precisely, I analysed how black beauty shame affects Brazilian black women, and it is a driving force to search for changes in beauty regimes, in order to become visible. Political logic permitted characterising how the demand "beauty for all" was created. The chain of equivalence was represented by two projected logic used as a way to contest the discourse of European beauty: the affirmative beauty logic and the necropolitics logic. The logic of difference raised by political parties, religion and the role of leaders, which dis-articulate mobilisations. Finally, fantasmatic logic showed the affective dimension, the libidinal energy, involved in the struggle for social justice and also the recognition of the black identity by black women activists. In this sense, this thesis emphasises the processual notion of organisations, giving relevance to the local context and the discursive struggles that shape the constitution of the subjects' identity to understand the embodied practices in political mobilisations.
