Cartografias temporárias do Nordeste: novíssimos movimentos sociais na construção de uma práxis coletiva

Abstract

This research aims to understand, through collaborative cartography, how the newest social movements within the context of Northeast Brazil contribute to the construction of a collective praxis. To achieve this, an analytical framework is established that spans from 2008, during the capitalist crisis, to the year 2022, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic—historical events that affected the entire world. These movements are characterized as activist actions organized by urban groups and collectives, evident in both online and street demonstrations, and articulated around transversal agendas. It is believed that these actions possess a revolutionary potential, formed by ordinary individuals capable of producing transformations and confronting, even in the micropolitics of everyday life, the production of neoliberal subjectivities. The methodology employed is a remote research-intervention conducted during the pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, based on the cartographic narrative of struggles and stemming from the Indisciplinary Cartographic Method. Thus, the experience is presented in the digital realm through the theoretical and methodological results of the course and the Webinar "Culture and Urban Struggles," which aimed to map urban struggles in Northeast Brazil through new extension practices and the work of researchers on various themes related to social movements. The Webinar, held in June 2021, featured invited researchers who, through their accounts, contributed to the cartography of urban struggles in various Brazilian locations, covering topics such as uprisings, networks and streets; tactical urbanism and urban interventions; contemporary art and cultural occupations; urban collectives and temporary movements for public space occupation; territorial disputes and insurgent practices; and insurgent urbanism and the production of the common. Additionally, the aim is to promote a discussion about new possibilities for networked teaching and research, transdisciplinarity among these multiple actors, and an analysis of the implementation of the Indisciplinary Cartographic Method in the pandemic context. Finally, this thesis is structured around: (i) the presentation of the method and results obtained in the field; (ii) a theoretical study of classical and contemporary social movements based on their respective resistances; and (iii) reflections on the construction of new possibilities, conceived from this cartography.