Banca de DEFESA: JOÃO PAULO DE OLIVEIRA RIGAUD

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STUDENT : JOÃO PAULO DE OLIVEIRA RIGAUD
DATE: 22/12/2021
TIME: 12:30
LOCAL: via plataforma RNP
TITLE:

Between hunger and the virus, the choice for life: an ethnography of the weavings between the phenomenon of hunger and the COVID-19 pandemic.

KEY WORDS:

Hunger. Social Vulnerability. Food and Nutrition Security. Mass Media. Solidarity.

PAGES: 127
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Nutrição
SUBÁREA: Análise Nutricional de População
SUMMARY:

The phenomenon of hunger is characterised as one of the most expressive manifestations of social inequalities, projecting to us the idea that its symbolism and materiality are revealing of the way in which society manifests itself. The pandemic of COVID-19 shows the results of a health and political crisis arising from the unequal structures of the capitalist system, which generates and reproduces a constant precarization of life. In Brazil, the governmental management allied to the country's structural challenges increasingly aggravates the pandemic, having as a consequence an expressive number of people in a situation of hunger. In this context, the present study of a socio-anthropological nature aimed to understand the intermingling and intersections between the phenomenon of hunger and the pandemic of COVID-19 in Brazil. For this, it is affiliated to the studies of the Actor-Network Theory in the development of an ethnography in digital contexts. In order to deal with the heterogeneity of conflicts, spaces and narratives of hunger, it takes as a principle the use of multiple theoretical and methodological strategies to produce the empirical material that sustains this research. The results start from following the flows of events that emerged from the hunger in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, for this purpose, the analyses are divided between three manuscripts based on distinct contexts. In a first moment, the analysis of the media discourses demonstrates the intentional reproduction of stigmas that continuously increase the vulnerability and invisibility of people in situations of hunger. Subsequently, the results show that the reality of hunger is segmented, tensioned and spectacularized from the projection of polyphonic media narratives. On the other hand, the ethnography developed in a peripheral community in the city of Salvador, Bahia demonstrates that vulnerable people build counter-hegemonic movements from the production in networks of a horizontal and daily solidarity, which escapes through dissident ways to the structures that imprison them. Finally, it is hoped that this study may contribute to the production of critical thinking in relation to the phenomenon of hunger, as well as influence the construction and implementation of public policies to alleviate poverty and promote Food and Nutrition Security, based on the promotion of the right to existence of all lives that persist despite the crisis and beyond hunger. 

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1095648 - LIGIA AMPARO DA SILVA SANTOS
Interna - 611.190.245-87 - MICHELI DANTAS SOARES - UFRB
Externo à Instituição - JULIÁN LÓPEZ GARCÍA