The project focuses on the study and dissemination of trajectories of militant engagement, unfolding into initiatives of both science communication and academic research. From the perspective of science communication, the project aims to produce and record audiovisual accounts of life histories of activists from Rio Grande do Sul, focusing on their trajectories of engagement and, eventually, disengagement. The first season was fully published on the project’s YouTube channel and focused on feminist and women’s activisms. From the perspective of academic research, the project proposes an analysis of the interviewees’ processes of militant engagement in dialogue with the literature on the topic. Transversally to the analysis of these processes of militant engagement, we will articulate three additional analytical axes related to: a) the role of memory in these processes; b) the influence of religion on militant engagement; c) and intergenerational conflicts and alliances among activists. In all cases, these themes will be investigated using the oral history method.

Participants (Center)

GPACE/UFRGS: Matheus Mazzilli Pereira, Marcelo Kunrath Silva, Elizabteh Azevedo, Amanda Mesquita Goldani, Clara Willadino Verardi, Fernanda Daitc de Freitas Camargo, Lívia Santos de Lima, Luan Homem Belomo, Giovanna Zocca, Thales Braz Bueno Borges