O sentido político do pré-vestibular comunitário da Maré: adesões e resistências

Abstract

The researches object is the politics propose of the Centro de Estudos e Ações Solidárias da Maré (CEASM), that works in the a Maré district and proposes more than promote the access the Maré´s residents to university, it also wants to capacity people to change their oppressive reality. The course s organizers think that academic learning makes the students more capable to promote the social transformation, and they mind to form organic intellectuals (Gramsci, 1968). This intervention on the reality is the entail to the social justice conception named recognition politics (Taylor, 2005), that asserts the person s or group s identity may suffer damage, if the people, or the society, depreciate that identity.: the lack of recognition can be a form of oppression that impression persons or groups in a false and distorted mode of being. Than this dissertation s aim is to verify if the Maré`s preparatory course s expectation becomes true. For this, interviews were made with eight persons that studied at the Maré´s preparator y course and entered at PUC-RJ university on 2000. The interview s analysis allows be perceived that the students made the university a privileged space for the fight for recognition.