Name: Rodrigo Paris Gasparini
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 02/03/2020
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Euzeneia Carlos | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Euzeneia Carlos | Advisor * |
| Maria Cristina Dadalto | Internal Alternate * |
| Matheus Mazzilli Pereira | External Examiner * |
| Monika Weronika Dowbor da Silva | External Examiner * |
Summary: This research starts from a dense review of the specialized literature of social
movements in order to isolate the relevant variables to formalize an analytical strategy
capable of understanding in more general terms how the transformations in the frames
of collective action (BENFORD, SNOW, 2000) impact on the dynamics of action and
organizational aspects of the Human Rights Movement of Espírito Santo (MDH-ES). It
is understood that this is a case inscribed within the new empirical reality of
institutionalizing activism, observed in contemporary Brazilian social movements. This
framing analysis will take place from the reconstruction of the engaged actors'
perceptions and narratives about the socio-historical context of collective mobilization,
seeking to propose relations between the transformations in the interpretative
frameworks and the transformation process in the interactive and organizational
dynamics of the activism network. This relation will be studied in two different
campaigns undertaken by the network engaged in the defense of human rights in the
state of Espírito Santo, specifically, the periods known as Campaign Against Impunity
and Violence (1993-2002) and Campaign Against Violations in the Prison System
(2004- 2010). This effort will be made through the analysis of dozens of documents
produced during the proposed time frame, by civil society actors, the State and media,
in addition to interviews with activists, aiming to reconstruct the historical processes of
the campaigns. The conceptual delimitation of the interaction and organizational
dynamics studied will occur mainly from the mobilization of analytical tools present in
the following formulations: confrontation repertoire (TILLY, 2008); organizational
repertoire (CLEMENS, 2010); interaction repertoire (ABERS; SERAFIM;
TATAGIBA, 2014). This effort will be made in order to quantify the action, interaction
and organizational repertoires mobilized by the human rights movement according to
their levels of institutionalization and conflict with the public authorities, at different
periods and to investigate how these dynamics are transformed over time, relating such
changes to the variations in the observed collective action frames.
Keywords: Social movements; State; Repertoire; Human rights; Espírito Santo.
