Andréa Paula dos Santos

Bio: Andréa Paula dos Santos is an academic researcher from University of São Paulo. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 162 citations.

A dissolução da vida adulta e a juventude como valor

Abstract: Tres processos inter-relacionados dao uma configuracao especifica a dissolucao da vida adulta nas sociedades contemporâneas: 1) o alargamento da faixa etaria do segmento considerado jovem da populacao; 2) o desdobramento das etapas mais avancadas do ciclo da vida em novas categorias etarias; 3) a transformacao da juventude em um valor, que pode ser conquistado em qualquer etapa da vida atraves da adocao de formas de consumo e estilos de vida adequados. Com base no modo como essas mudancas sao representadas na midia e analisadas na literatura academica, o argumento central e que numa sociedade altamente hierarquizada como a brasileira, a vida adulta ganha uma dupla significacao: quando a referencia sao os setores economicamente mais privilegiados o adulto indica um "consumidor que falhou", porque foi incapaz de adotar estilos de vida e formas de consumo para manter a juventude; quando a referencia sao os mais pobres, indica uma especie de fantasia inatingivel, porque os pobres sao discriminados como individuos incapazes de alcancar um estagio da vida marcado pela maturidade, responsabilidade e compromisso.

O conceito de coletivo como superação da dicotomia indivíduo-sociedade

Abstract: Em conformidade com o projeto da modernidade, o individuo e a sociedade tem sido definidos como entidades naturais e polos que preexistem a sua interacao. De acordo com tal perspectiva, onde prevalece uma logica dicotomica, o coletivo e identificado com o social. Atraves da referencia aos conceitos de pratica de Paul Veyne, de molar e molecular de Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari e de rede de Bruno Latour, Michel Callon e Jonh Law, o artigo propoe um novo conceito de coletivo, definido como plano de co-engendramento do individuo e da sociedade.

A favela que se vê e que se vende: reflexões e polêmicas em torno de um destino turístico

Abstract: The article discusses the development of the favela into a tourist attraction, examining how promoters in four different favelas have been attempting to actually place them in a tourist market. The development of the favela into a tourist destination is seen as part of the socalled reality tours phenomenon and of the global circulation of the favela as a trademark. The methodology included different strategies: long interviews with qualified informants, field observation, and participant observation in different tours. The article concludes with some thoughts on my own research experience on such a polemic field of investigation.

Das essências às multiplicidades: especialismo psi e produções de subjetividades

Abstract: The present article is intended as an analysis of the social division of work within Capitalism, the emergence of specialization - mainly psychology specialization - some productions of subjectivities and part of its effects For such, we will initially appoint some ''forms'' that are being made for Man, Society, Psychology and Politics through the belief they have an existence of their own Such belief has instituted an essencialist psychology, privatized/intimized and family-focused Another prioritized aspect is the production of the ''individual-way-of-being'' and some of its effects: meritocracy and the psychologizing of social life Finally, some escape routes will be pointed out and escape lines that will allow the thinking of Man, Society, Psychology and Politics not as self-excluding territories, but as interconnected fields that crisscross out and add together

Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas

Abstract: In this article, three topics are interrelated: school desertion, poverty and migration. The situation in Mexico with respect to desertion and the relationship between this and several factors associated with poverty is presented. It is argued that scholastic desertion has an expanding effect which depends on the concurrence of two factors: disenchantment with schools and the “habitus” people adopt in cases of extreme poverty to assure their survival. In regard to the first of these factors, the normal course of schooling (the methods and the programs that are preferred in school) is critically analyzed and other indications that scholastic education is changing are examined. In regard to the second of these factors, the case of migrant Mexicans who go to the United States is examined. The results of a survey in Mexican junior high schools are reported and exploratory interviews were conducted with migrating Mexicans. The conclusions of other research carried out in Mexico dealing with scholastic desertion are also reconsidered.