Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo observar a execução das políticas sociais no cotidiano da periferia da zona sul da cidade de São Paulo a partir de práticas e discursos protagonizados pelos sujeitos nelas envolvidos: profissionais, "usuários" e ativistas. Entendo Estado como uma forma de organização de poder que se impõe hierarquicamente e se reproduz cotidianamente nas "margens": esquadrinhando e controlando territórios, categorizando e segmentando a população, normatizando e burocratizando relações e sujeitos. Busco, a partir da observação do trânsito de sujeitos, discursos e práticas entre serviços públicos e articulações locais, apresentar como estes podem tanto reafirmar a forma de poder estatal, quanto resistir a ela. Tal resistência é alimentada por discursos que se constroem localmente a partir da mobilização de identidades que articulam marcadores sociais da diferençasobretudo raça, classe e gênero-e a ideia de sofrimento gerada pela reprodução de violências institucionais ligadas a estes marcadores
This article examines solidarity networks that have been organized during the Covid-19 pandemic in the peripheries of the city of São Paulo to respond to the overlapping of economic and sanitary crises, which particularly affect families in precarious living conditions. The objective is to argue that these articulations reveal a context marked by the state’s abandonment of its responsibilities to guarantee social rights, and by resistances and struggles that articulate race, gender, class and territory, which have grown in the past decade in the peripheries. Finally, it emphasizes the fundamental role of women who construct these networks through their daily experiences providing care. Care is not understood here as being restricted to the domestic dimension, but as a gendered practice that produces relations and struggles.
This article examines political subjectivities, community engagements and voting practices among residents of São Paulo’s Zona Sul peripheries in the three years preceding Brazil’s 2018 presidential election. Building on a 398-person household survey, 46 in-depth interviews, and extensive participation observation over the course of a four-year study, we argue that although most residents of our study communities across the political spectrum are disenchanted with institutional politics, many maintain political engagement through their everyday lives, including activism centered on intersectional identities and state-sponsored violence/genocide. Our discussion combines statistical analysis and auto-ethnographic inflected vignettes and is in dialogue with two common themes present in recent analyses of the Brazilian political landscape: the role of urban periphery voters in the election of Bolsonaro, and the complex connections between moralities and political subjectivities. In conclusion, we reflect on opportunities and challenges for progressive political engagement in the (post)Bolsonaro era.
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