Banca de DEFESA: ELOÁ MARCELE NASCIMENTO LACERDA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ELOÁ MARCELE NASCIMENTO LACERDA
DATE: 13/12/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

"ELAS POR ELAS": INCARCERATED WOMEN AND ART AS A POSSIBILITY OF AGENCY AND SELF-DEFINITION

KEY WORDS:

female incarceration; space and images of control; art and agency

PAGES: 105
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

The increase in female incarceration has been a growing concern in Brazil in recent years. In the prison context, the forms and spaces of control become evident, as women face not only punishment for engaging in illicit activities, but also the consequences of a system that reproduces and perpetuates structural inequalities of class, race, and gender. The specificities experienced by women in prison are clearly revealed when considering the challenges posed by issues related to gender and sexuality, as well as those of a biological nature (such as menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding). Given the challenges posed by spatial prohibition and the challenge of leading a dignified life in prison, the analysis sought to identify actions that would reveal ways of overcoming images of control, whether through support networks among inmates, or through educational initiatives and artistic practices that enable these women to maintain agency over their bodies and resist the dehumanization of the prison system. Challenging the one-dimensional narrative of incarceration, the aim of this research is to identify actions and tactics of resistance and forms of re-existence based on the organization among women in such spaces of control, in which art, literature and photography appear as sensitive expressions of the subjectivities of these women. Through the artistic works of Nana Moraes and Barbara Copque with incarcerated women, the research sought to highlight possible agencies of incarcerated women in relation to their lives outside of prison. The exploratory and qualitative research was carried out through a broad bibliographic and documentary review and through the author's participant observation in an organization that welcomes former inmates, the Elas Existe Institute. However, it was through the identification of the actions developed with incarcerated women in their contact with photography and writing as crafts that these incarcerated women contributed decisively to the interpretation of the paradoxical meaning of space. Prison appears as a spatiality of deprivation of freedom, but art allows us to reveal that even though mediations and dialogues outside of prison are necessary, it is possible for these women to reveal their own ways of writing their existences beyond this closed space. Through letters, embroidery and photographs, “the life that remained outside prison” appears, revealing possible openings and agencies, albeit limited. In this way, through the arts performed in this researched prison spatiality, our embodied geography reaches the subjectivities of these women and reveals to us the meaning of a scientific practice committed to the existences made vulnerable in their corporealities.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1657619 - ANITA LOUREIRO DE OLIVEIRA
Interna - 1946744 - ROBERTA CARVALHO ARRUZZO
Externa à Instituição - JOSELI MARIA SILVA