Luciele Nardi Comunello

Discussões sobre violência: trabalhando a produção de sentidos

This article aims to understand the Production of Meaning on violence through observations and discussions with men who are considered aggressors. Our discussion is based on the theoretical approaches of Social Psychology, more precisely through the perspective of Social Constructionism with postulations from the production of meaning and discursive practices. The research was accomplished with men that participate in a group called «Anonymous Aggressors». We have participated in these groups as participant-observers and have taken part in 22 sessions of 90 minutes each for the period of 20 months. From our analysis, we understand that the meanings of violence indicate that these men situate themselves in the space of family relationships and that these meanings are implicated with other events like the use of drugs, diverse forms of aggression, and the lack of dialogue as a possibility to overcome violent situations.

Pobreza, violência e trabalho: a produção de sentidos de meninos e meninas de uma favela

Abstract Poverty, violence and work: the boy’s and girl’s meaning production in a poor community . This article aimsto discuss the production of meanings about poverty, violence and work. According to the social, economicand cultural conditions, this work analyzes the intersections of gender, racial, social class and sexual girl’s andboy’s identities construction in the community spaces such as the street, the school and the home. Sixteeninterviews and six discussion groups were carried out with girls and boys, between fifteen and eighteen yearsold, from fifth and eight grade in school. The understanding of the meanings of these girls and boys was basedon theoretical and methodological social constructionism approach. The meaning of poverty is perceived bythese girls and boys as burden. The violence is taken as concerning, but also as something natural. Work isused as a criterion to classify people, differentiating honest persons from delinquents, who do not work. Key-words: meaning production, identities/differences, social reality.

As relações raciais na construção das identidades

The purpose of the present study is to show how racial issues permeate boys and girls lives in the slum areas, taking their context into consideration and trying to understand how they transform and resist to different situations related to racial relationships. The individuals who took part in group discussions and interviews study in a local municipal school. The data analysis was based on Meaning Production theoretic and methodological approach within Cultural Studies. The discourses about race are associated with aspects of their everyday life, media themes, discrimination and social classes differences, through a discourse that refers to inequalities. The produced meanings show contestation and resistance, signaling social mobilizations related to racial discrimination. However, they produce meanings that come to reinforce a hegemonic discourse and their adaptation to it.

“Porto Alegre Vive”: (Co)Operação e Formação de redes na organização da cidade

This paper presents a cartography of networks in (co)operation, in an urban movement: Porto Alegre Vive. We used the network topology for centralized, decentralized and distributed networks; some principles of complex thinking: dialogic, hologram and self-eco-organization, as well as the perspective of order-disorder-organization. The results point to communication forms; to centralization and mediation, as well as the distribution, emphasizing a non-boundary paradigm. The cooperation is understood as cause and effect of more autonomous relations and, therefore, more democratic.