“Isso é coisa pra falar”: ocupar, ocupar-se, desocupar. Histórias com uma ocupação estudantil

Abstract

This thesis aims to problematize the experience of student occupation that took place at the Paracambi campus of IFRJ in the year 2016. This problematization serves as an analytical exercise of estrangement and questioning, removing it from the realm of prior knowledge. To do so, stories of occupation are recounted, emerging with the multiplicities of memories and the unpredictabilities of encounters-interviews produced through the aesthetic-political-methodological tools of Oral History; writing as a space of experience; and the assumptions of implication analysis. These stories of occupation are intended, above all, as provocations, with the aim of bringing visibility to certain conditions of possibility that allowed the emergence of that occupation and the questions it raises about our present. I also seek to denaturalize practices that, as a neoliberal normalization motif of life, attempt to govern the conduct of student-subjects; analyze the escapes, captures, deviations, inventions, intensities that the stories of the occupants allow passage for; and experiment, through oral history, with the production of singular, fragmentary, contingent, and implicated stories. These are stories that, in an attempt to deviate from the pursuit of a supposed neutrality, and exposing the "backside of the tapestry," aim to produce singular practices of thought that enhance the suspension/questioning of certain practices co-engineered in institutional spaces of knowledge production: academia, school, and history. At the same time, these are stories of occupation of these spaces.