Atravessamentos culturais na ruralidade: produzindo verdades sobre os sujeitos surdos

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the meanings produced by deaf subjects over a rural community in the municipality of Agudo - RS. The research interest is focused on cultural crossings which appear in this space, considering the deaf subject in their political, cultural and linguistic differences. The rural school is also understood as a production space of deaf subjects, questioning the education of these people in political and cultural aspects. In this order, it raises questions about the circulation of discourses produced, nowadays, about language, culture and identity of deaf subjects. We start from the understanding of culture from the perspective of Cultural Studies, considering that the exercise of power / knowledge within this discursive arena produces meanings about things, also instituting modes of being and acting in a particular context, i.e., in the struggle for meaning, relations of power move down on the mat by producing discursive truths about the subject. It is this theoretical understanding of meaning production, this research questions the cultural crossings of deaf subjects in rural environment, as well as the constitution of what is to be deaf in that space. Thus, we discuss how these processes of signification and production are invented. The theoretical affiliation, which we aim to subsidize this study, provides a different view of the methodological dimensions and, therefore, allows us to deconstruct some metanarratives. In that sense, this work does not follow ready methods, structured in models to be applied in the investigative process. We understand that each researcher creates her/ his own analytical devices giving a flexible character, but no less committed to the research. We undertook the concepts here discussed as tools, which operate methodologically in developing this work.