Trajectories women the lights of the city and paths of jungle: Young rural women, highter education and life projects
Young rural women; highter education; life projects
When taking as interlocutors young universitary students of a rural community in north Ceará that live in the flows and borders between field and city I have an objective from understand about the motivating factors that have made possible a trajectory of school longevity – the arrival at the university as well as analyze how the (re) construction oh their life projects takes place during the university experience. To do so, I take as a presupposition that needs to follow the itineraries by which they construct their daily lives. Thus, in the light of Marcus (2004) multisite etnography, I follow the everyday trails of youngs, in the rural community, university transportation and university. With a qualitative research, this etnography study chooses participant observation, semi-structured interviews and biographical narratives as research techniques necessary to achieve its purposes. In the fluxes and crossings of boundaries – producers of subjectivities – that young women, in a processual movement, (re) construct between the rural world and the urban universe. The transit between different domains and universes of meanings leads to the articulation between diversified networks, promoting the proliferation to multiple experiences. The multiplicity of references leads, therefore, t the problem of fragmentation, which for Velho (2003) is one of the signs of modernity. However, it is in the imbricated process between continuity and discontinuity, between tradition and modernity that we can locate the understanding of (re) construction of the life projects these youngs. The data obtained point to a complex and multifaceted reality that signals the elaboration of life projects within an urban perspective, using the city and their benefits, but without an uprooting of the field, which remains a strong reference for think of the trajectories of the young investigated.