Prefigurative Brazilian ativismo through the lens of the transformative activist stance: renewing radical political imagination through “collectividual” agency
Mind, Culture, and Activiy, 2020
During three months in 2015, in São Paulo, Brazil, public high school students carried out an unp... more During three months in 2015, in São Paulo, Brazil, public high school students carried out an unprecedentedly successful protest that forced the state governor to abandon plans to merge schools, which would have resulted in overcrowding and reducing their number. Working collectively via social media coordination without direct ties to institutions, students occupied hundreds of schools, reflecting recent trends in social movements characterized as prefigurative practices. The sociological literature has grappled with theorizing the core dimensions of prefigurative politics that have been associated with widely varied and often politically contested practices. We argue that defining prefigurative practices calls for theorizing agency and human development as integral to collaborative projects of social transformation and that Vygotsky’s project expanded by the Transformative Activist Stance (TAS) approach proposed by Anna Stetsenko can contribute to such theorizing. The TAS offers conceptual tools to analyze the dialectics of individual and collective agency in struggles for a sought-after future implicated in transformative practice. Based on a case study of high school occupations, we highlight the central role played by students’ development as agents of social transformation in conjunction with the growth of their collective political action as key to creating the future in the present.
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students carried out an unprecedentedly successful protest that forced
the state governor to abandon plans to merge schools, which would have
resulted in overcrowding and reducing their number. Working collectively
via social media coordination without direct ties to institutions, students
occupied hundreds of schools, reflecting recent trends in social movements
characterized as prefigurative practices. The sociological literature has
grappled with theorizing the core dimensions of prefigurative politics that
have been associated with widely varied and often politically contested
practices. We argue that defining prefigurative practices calls for theorizing
agency and human development as integral to collaborative projects of
social transformation and that Vygotsky’s project expanded by the
Transformative Activist Stance (TAS) approach proposed by Anna
Stetsenko can contribute to such theorizing. The TAS offers conceptual
tools to analyze the dialectics of individual and collective agency in struggles
for a sought-after future implicated in transformative practice. Based
on a case study of high school occupations, we highlight the central role
played by students’ development as agents of social transformation in
conjunction with the growth of their collective political action as key to
creating the future in the present.
como o conflito se encontra presente em sua história, nas suas relações
interpessoais e na sua dinâmica psíquica. Na conclusão é enfatizada a
atualidade desse estudo dos fundamentos do conceito de conflito
psíquico para a formação dos analistas contemporâneos.
importante da concepção de sujeito no campo psicanalítico e tem relevância para o entendimento do que é saúde e doença psíquica.