https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/2482 2026-10-31T11:11:31Z 2026-10-31T11:11:31Z Teixeira, Sara Reis https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/26228 2026-10-28T23:16:05Z 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Title: Cartografar e catar goiabas: o que pode uma infância? Authors: Teixeira, Sara Reis Abstract: The present study is a cartography built as a confluence territory between the researcher and its field, which mobilizes affections as we spend time, work and get along with kids and adolescents, the target public of an integral protection paradigm. We stand in a position of producing questions and tensions about how public policies of childhood’s protection can build one’s subjective constitution. For that, we take as our research’s problem how the modes in which childhood is produced as a risk, in face of infantility dispositif, can rule children by taking them on a grid of knowledge and power that articulates public policies, specially, welfare politics, on protecting children at risk. The confluence of experiences as a social worker in a child-care institution and the exchanges and alliances formed with their children are combined with observations as we walk through our neighbourhood to compose our field journal as scenes in which we can analyse contemporary modes of subjectivation and the Psychology’s role within the grid of child-governing. For that, we chose a method of interventive research, the cartographic method, which consists in an attentional politic as the researcher stays open and willing to get involved in his study field, to habit existential territories and follow up to children’s subjective processes. Through cartography, we adopt a genealogical perspective on the history of government policies regarding childhood and the understanding of what constitutes "childhood." We contrast this with developmentalist ideals that articulate a policy of integral protection for children and adolescents, ideals often detached from the actual lives lived in the alleys, streets, homes, and rivers that shape these childhoods. Thus, we construct three interwoven moments: two chapters of conceptual articulation offering a brief tour of childhood conceptions, tracing a history of ruptures in the production of globalist ideals of children, upheld by a "dispositif of infantility" that defines and governs these existences. Thus, we engage with understandings of childhood that are constantly contested within the dual nature of the time inhabited by children's bodies. Another moment in this writing involves fabulating narratives based on the scenes written on the field journal. Scenes that are permeated by notions of risk, protection, and vulnerability, as well as the shadow of an adultcentric virtuality that looms over childhood. We fabulate; we savor guava with the boy who “flees from protection." We defend the indefensible and refuse, at every turn, to further diminish lives already marked by power, lives rendered "infamous." We fabulate and savor words as a combative strategy against the sickness affecting both the researcher’s body and the childhoods-in-devir with which we align ourselves. We engage in fabulation by betting on the unexpected nature of "devirchild", on the fact that children and adolescents can indeed be in a state of devir, however numerous the strategies of capture may be. We place our intention in partnerships among and with children, and in their boldness, in the traces that allow us to dig our burrows together.

2026-08-31T00:00:00Z Santana, Maria Alice Araujo de https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/26227 2026-10-28T21:27:09Z 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Title: Um estudo fenomenológico-existencial sobre dança, deficiência física, família e saúde mental Authors: Santana, Maria Alice Araujo de Abstract: This dissertation aimed to understand, through the lens of existential and hermeneutic phenomenology, the meanings of the lived experience of dance and its interconnections with physical disability, family relationships, care, mental health, and life projects. This study employs a qualitative approach with a phenomenological-hermeneutic orientation, grounded primarily in the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, van Manen, and Sheets-Johnstone, and in dialogue with critical disability studies. The investigation was developed based on a family trajectory shaped by the experience of cerebral palsy and ongoing engagement with dance, utilizing narratives, memories, reflective logs, photographs, and audiovisual materials as tools to evoke and contextualize the lived experience. The analytical process was guided by movements of immersion in the narratives, holistic reading, selective and detailed approaches, phenomenological description, reflexivity, and hermeneutic writing, in a continuous interplay between the parts and the whole. The analysis revealed four interdependent thematic clusters: dance as an experience of care and resistance; disability as an embodied, relational, and socially situated experience; mental health as an embodied, affective, and relational experience; and the interplay of temporality, family, and life projects. The findings indicate that dance cannot be understood as a linear cause of transformation, inclusion, or mental health, but rather as a field of experience where movement, bonds, recognition, participation, and existential possibilities were lived and imbued with new meaning over time. The trajectory examined challenges normative conceptions regarding which bodies can inhabit the dance space, highlights the importance of pedagogical practices sensitive to bodily diversity, and broadens the understanding of disability beyond exclusively biomedical or individualizing perspectives. The study concludes that the experience of dance can acquire significant meaning in the shaping of ways to care, relate, participate, and envision existential possibilities, without these meanings being universal or automatically generalizable. The study’s contribution lies in deepening a situated experience that challenges dance practices, research methodologies, critical disability studies, and contemporary understandings of mental health, embodiment, and inclusion.

2026-08-31T00:00:00Z Santos, Yasmin Melo https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/26219 2026-10-28T15:20:07Z 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

Title: Infância diagnosticada: quando o transtorno nomeia a criança e (des)organiza a família Authors: Santos, Yasmin Melo Abstract: This study aims to investigate the effects of diagnostic labeling in childhood, particularly with regard to the neurodevelopmental disorders described in the DSM-5, with emphasis on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Based on interviews with caregivers, the study seeks to understand how the history of these diagnostic classifications influences the contemporary construction of perspectives on childhood, the ways in which psychological suffering is recognized, and the family dynamics shaped by specialized technical discourse. It is grounded in the understanding that the central role assumed by diagnoses in contemporary society cannot be analyzed in isolation but must instead be understood as part of a broader historical process of the medicalization of life. The findings indicate that the consolidation of modern psychiatry, particularly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries onward, was closely linked to the development of strategies for classifying and managing behaviors considered deviant, thereby producing a rationality based on the opposition between the normal and the pathological. Within this context, childhood became a privileged target of practices of surveillance, prevention, and intervention, especially through the articulation of medicine, education, and the family. In contemporary society, this logic has been intensified by the consolidation of neurodevelopmental disorders as the central axis of psychiatric classifications in childhood, supported by a predominantly neurobiological rationale. Furthermore, the widespread dissemination of these diagnoses extends beyond the strictly clinical domain, occupying a strategic position in organizing access to public policies, social rights, and specialized services. This scenario highlights the importance of examining the impacts produced by the expansion of psychiatric classifications on contemporary modes of constituting childhood.

2026-08-27T00:00:00Z Albuquerque, Camilla Martins https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/26217 2026-10-28T14:26:41Z 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z

Title: Entre gestos, escritas e uma político-clínica das desimportâncias: catado de estórias sobre mulheres e cuidado Authors: Albuquerque, Camilla Martins Abstract: This research is conceived as a gathering of stories about care practices produced by women in encounters between mental health services and the territories of traditional peoples and communities along the coastal waters of Sergipe. Its objective is to follow how care processes participate in the production of subjectivities and what clues, emerging from these encounters, make it possible to understand their forces of capture and their potential to invent other ways of existing and caring. The research problem arises from the tension between the position occupied by the researcher as a health professional and the historical processes that position women as caregivers, in a context marked by the feminization of care and the invisibilization of the forms of work that sustain life. The study is grounded in the understanding that care constitutes a contradictory field, traversed both by regulatory gender norms and by gestures capable of producing deviations, resistance, and other ways of sustaining life. Methodologically, the research draws on cartography, understood as a research-intervention method aimed at following processes of subjectivation, and on Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. Writing experimentation is taken as a mode of producing data, selves, and worlds, in an exercise of gathering stories, gestures, memories, affects, and silences around women, care, and territories of life. Organized into “breaths,” the dissertation follows scenes that produce concepts and offer clues about the pedagogies that produce women as caregivers, the invisible work involved in creating the conditions for care, everyday choreographies of protection in the face of violence, and the shared construction of intelligibilities about forms of suffering related to these gendered pedagogies. The analyses also indicate that the collective production of care can transform sensibilities and expand repertoires of response, giving rise to a politics of care generated by and among women as a form of defending and expanding life, referred to in this research as a politico-clinical practice of unimportance. The stories are not treated as illustrations of theory, but are followed as producers of knowledge and subjectivities. Writing thus becomes part of the very gesture of caring, as an ethical-political practice that makes visible the forms of unimportance that sustain life and affirms care as a field of dispute between capture and the creation of a proliferating womanly life.

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