Carlos Roberto de Castro-Silva

Igualdades e dessimetrias: a participação política em ONGs HIV/AIDS do Canadá e do Brasil

RESUMO: As ONGs/AIDS desde o inicio da epidemia sao lugares de acolhimento e de pressao politica, propiciam alternativas de convivencia social para as pessoas que convivem com o HIV/AIDS. Atraves da experiencia dos participantes de uma ONG brasileira e de outra canadense, este estudo teve o objetivo de discutir a participacao politica como um processo em constante construcao, condicionada por fatores psicossociais, contextualizados historica e culturalmente. Atraves da analise de documentos, questionarios e entrevistas baseado na Hermeneutica de Profundidade de John Thompson (1995), pudemos perceber que em ambas as ONGs desencadeia-se um processo de politizacao da AIDS a partir da ajuda ao proximo e das troca de experiencias. Todavia na ONG brasileira este processo acontece atraves de um envolvimento mais intenso com a dinâmica institucional e comunitaria, tendo como objetivo a conquista e consolidacao de direitos, enquanto que a ONG canadense constitui-se um espaco atraves do qual cada participante individualmente acessa direitos ja consolidados no pais. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Participacao politica; ONGs/AIDS; fatores psicossociais; direitos humanos; vulnerabilidade social. SIMILARITIES AND DISSIMILARITIES: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN NGOS/AIDS FROM BRAZIL AND CANADA

Potência de ação da juventude em uma comunidade periférica: enfrentamentos e desafios

This article, based on doctoral research, aims to understand and draw attention to forms of social participation by young people living in a peripheral community on the coast of São Paulo State. It also examines the manners of health production encountered by the subjects themselves, to reveal how young people have approached this in a context of marked inequality. The young study participants were involved in the activities of an NGO and a hip hop group, where the researcher was placed. The results were constructed on the basis of observations recorded in field diaries and semi-structured interviews, and analysed using the Depth Hermeneutics methodology. They indicate that building community ties expresses the participation of young people and contributes to tackling inequalities and social exclusion. Participation in groups has proven potent and able to shape processes of autonomy, self-care and care for others. However, they appear as isolated initiatives by other institutions. It is also challenging to think of ways of understanding young peoples participation, participating together with them in their lives in their contexts, making for horizontal relationships and surmounting the ideas of homogenisation, control and tutelage of this population.

Sentidos e Processos Psicossociais envolvidos na Inclusão pelo Trabalho na Saúde Mental

The theoretical, political and social changes in the field of psychosocial rehabilitation, have brought new possibilities for practical research. In this article we investigate the psychosocial processes that influence the solidarity work of the subjects of Mental Health, emphasizing everyday life and senses. The method we use is guided by the conception of the world of Socio-Historical Psychology, in a qualitative epistemology research. We conducted a case study with ethnographic inspiration, through interviews and participant observation in a recycling cooperative in Santos, Brazil. The interviewees were six men and four women: eight of them were users of mental health services and two were technicians. Most of them were more than 50 years, had not completed elementary school and had worked in the cooperative for more than three years. The analysis by Depth Hermeneutics, which resulted from complex institutional relations, showed that the cooperative members bring positive senses to work, whether through affection, financial return or family and social reconfigurations. These new forms of sociability are destroying the barriers of dialectical social exclusion/inclusion and demystifying the prejudice against the ill and the poor. Absence of competition, combined with social participation and a supportive culture, tend to potentiate these projects and their subjects.

Sentidos y Procesos Psicosociales involucrado en Inclusión a través de Trabajo en Salud Mental

The theoretical, political and social changes in the field of psychosocial rehabilitation, have brought new possibilities for practical research. In this article we investigate the psychosocial processes that influence the solidarity work of the subjects of Mental Health, emphasizing everyday life and senses. The method we use is guided by the conception of the world of Socio-Historical Psychology, in a qualitative epistemology research. We conducted a case study with ethnographic inspiration, through interviews and participant observation in a recycling cooperative in Santos, Brazil. The interviewees were six men and four women: eight of them were users of mental health services and two were technicians. Most of them were more than 50 years, had not completed elementary school and had worked in the cooperative for more than three years. The analysis by Depth Hermeneutics, which resulted from complex institutional relations, showed that the cooperative members bring positive senses to work, whether through affection, financial return or family and social reconfigurations. These new forms of sociability are destroying the barriers of dialectical social exclusion/inclusion and demystifying the prejudice against the ill and the poor. Absence of competition, combined with social participation and a supportive culture, tend to potentiate these projects and their subjects.

Senses and Psychosocial Processes involved in the Work of Social Inclusion in Mental Health

The theoretical, political and social changes in the field of psychosocial rehabilitation, have brought new possibilities for practical research. In this article we investigate the psychosocial processes that influence the solidarity work of the subjects of Mental Health, emphasizing everyday life and senses. The method we use is guided by the conception of the world of Socio-Historical Psychology, in a qualitative epistemology research. We conducted a case study with ethnographic inspiration, through interviews and participant observation in a recycling cooperative in Santos, Brazil. The interviewees were six men and four women: eight of them were users of mental health services and two were technicians. Most of them were more than 50 years, had not completed elementary school and had worked in the cooperative for more than three years. The analysis by Depth Hermeneutics, which resulted from complex institutional relations, showed that the cooperative members bring positive senses to work, whether through affection, financial return or family and social reconfigurations. These new forms of sociability are destroying the barriers of dialectical social exclusion/inclusion and demystifying the prejudice against the ill and the poor. Absence of competition, combined with social participation and a supportive culture, tend to potentiate these projects and their subjects.