Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JAIRO CARIOCA DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JAIRO CARIOCA DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 18/12/2025
TIME: 18:30
LOCAL: Canal do Legesex no Youtube
TITLE:

SILENCED VOICES:
A study on Sexual Harassment at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

 

KEY WORDS:

sexual harassment; gender; university; pedagogy; coloniality.

PAGES: 126
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

In light of the theoretical–methodological path outlined here and of the hypothesis that sexual harassment in the university operates as a technology of power articulated with a Pedagogy of Subjective Dilution, the general objective of this thesis is to analyze sexual harassment at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) as an expression of a patriarchal social and institutional structure that produces and naturalizes gender-based violence. It does so by articulating the historical–epistemological genealogy of the erosion of the feminine, the examination of UFRRJ’s normative framework, and the listening to the voices of those affected, with a view to producing conceptual and political tools to confront rape culture within the university space. The research proposes the concept of Pedagogy of Subjective Dilution (PDS): a set of subtle and persistent pedagogical and symbolic processes through which university institutions erode the subjectivity of victims of harassment, fragment their speech, shift blame, and normalize violence as an organizational routine, thereby producing a hidden curriculum of institutional tolerance of harm (it enters into dialogue with Freire without being confused with his notion of “culture of silence”). The study starts from the hypothesis that sexual harassment operates as a technology of power that percolates through an invisible pedagogy which manufactures affects, bodies, and expectations that nurture gender hierarchies and institutional tolerance of violence. Thus, the supposedly emancipatory university ends up reproducing inequalities and sustaining pacts of silencing. Methodologically, the investigation is structured into four interdependent cores: (1) analytical–historical, which revisits the genealogy of the exclusion of the feminine in the formation of Western thought; (2) documentary–institutional, devoted to the analysis of UFRRJ’s protocols and regulations; (3) narrative–listening, which gathers testimonies from students, faculty, and staff who bring forth complaints of harassment; and (4) formative–critical, which maps counter-hegemonic educational experiences that block the acts and effects of harassment.

Keywords: sexual harassment; gender; university; pedagogy; coloniality.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1742750 - JOYCE ALVES DA SILVA
Externa ao Programa - 2079589 - MARIA DE FATIMA COSTA DE OLIVEIRA - UFRRJExterna à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA CANDAL POLI - UFRJ