masterThesis
Narrativas, memórias e práticas sociopolíticas: uma etnografia da mobilização social e da resposta coletiva à epidemia HIV/AIDS no Rio Grande do Norte
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SILVA JÚNIOR, Fernando Joaquim da. Narrativas, memórias e práticas sociopolíticas: uma etnografia da mobilização social e da resposta coletiva à epidemia HIV/AIDS no Rio Grande do Norte. 2019. 205f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Antropologia Social) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.
Autor
Silva Júnior, Fernando Joaquim da
Resumen
This text presents a master's research that offers an ethnographic analysis of the sociopolitical
mobilization of response to HIV and AIDS in the urban context of Natal and Mossoró, the two
largest cities in Rio Grande do Norte state. The dissertation aimed to understand the
narratives, practices and meanings of response to the epidemic among activists, patient
groups, managers and health professionals in the face of inequalities and challenges in
adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and HIV prevention. I tried to pay attention to
how the collective and individual projects of my interlocutors were elaborated and their
internal reasons to the point of facing the gossip, cooperating or diverging with managers and
other participants of the mobilization, besides dedicating time, economic investment, physical
and emotional effort. In this ethnographic research, I performed participant observation in
different environments, such as ceremonies, hearings and public manifestations, celebrations,
hospitals and specialized care services, emphasizing the use of spaces by the interlocutors.
Simultaneously, in-depth interviews with activists, health professionals, patients and public
managers were produced, as well as analysis of the local press and the use of photographs to
broaden perceptions about the researched field. In this way, I present an overview of the
socio-political mobilization of HIV and AIDS, while noting the particularities of these
different collectives and social actors. I could see a strongly contested social world, full of
collective and individual projects in the fight against the epidemic and crossed by multiple
social inequalities that decisively affect the lives of thousands of people from this region
living and coliving with HIV. I also perceived communication, narrative, memory and
testimony of trauma as powerful instruments of political action. Therefore, this research seeks
to contribute to the anthropological discussion about HIV and AIDS in the context of Rio
Grande do Norte, at a critical moment for facing the epidemic in the state, affected by the
exponential growth of people diagnosed with HIV and people dying from AIDS. A present
that insists on approaching a painful chapter from the past.