Por uma administração menor: o caso do Bailinho da Tia Naná

Abstract

Using the joint work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as theoretical and methodological support, this article aims primarily to argue in favor of a smaller administration. To this end, we seek to raise clues, tips, and glimpses of other ways of being and coexisting that tension, expand, and rework the conventional practices of the administrative universe – whether in their ways of thinking and producing knowledge, or in their ways of organizing. Through a cartography of the immanent forces in the lives of women who dance at Bailinho da Tia Naná – a popular dance for senior citizens located in the center of the city of Belo Horizonte/MG – we aim not only to make explicit the hard segmentarities, but also, and this is where the difference lies, to direct our attention to the appositions, inventions, what leaks, what escapes, what escapes binary and functionalist organizations, what escapes the colonization of our vital forces of creation and transcreation in micropolitical relations. In relation to the concept of ordinary management and Organizational Studies, we seek to identify, in everyday life, what breaks, what modifies, what invents deviations from the norms, what creates difference; careful management with the power, joy, multiplicity, complexity and interdependence inherent in the ways of organizing and composing the between of everyday, historicized, localized and real lives.