Pragmática Cultural da Desobediência Civil: repertórios desviantes, sistemas complexos e tecnologias da comunicação

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is based on the understanding that citizens’ access to their rights takes form through everyday interaction, subjected to pragmatic rules and cultural contingencies. We develop a cultural pragmatic perspective of civil disobedience, mapping the interdependency among interaction order, culture and interaction citizenship. In this sense, disobedience can be understood as the use of cultural repertoires that put authority performances at risk, forcing breaks in the interaction order and making possible to publicize tacit rules involved both in judicial disrespect and struggle for recognition. These repertoires are brought into practice in places marked by overlapping regulations in different scales – local situation, communities of practice, cultures of production, political economies – bringing the need to recognize dynamics of culturally organized complexity, crossed by diverse communication technologies and possibilities of cultural analysis. To analyse the multiple spheres of these matters, we establish interdisciplinary conceptual bridges among pragmatics of communication, organized complexity and cultural studies, in which cultural repertoires figure as connective element among different scales. The relation traced between cultural pragmatics and popular culture is compatible with analysis of biographies/self-referenced narratives, fictional technological dystopias and ethnographies.