Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ELISA ELSIE COSTA BATISTA DA SILVA BESERRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ELISA ELSIE COSTA BATISTA DA SILVA BESERRA
DATE: 04/07/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Contemporary photography and the alignment of motherhood in family records

KEY WORDS:

Photography; memory; autoethnography; maternalography; family album

PAGES: 150
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Teoria da Comunicação
SUMMARY:

In this research, I propose to investigate how the processes of archiving photographs, as well as contemporary photographic works, can be influenced by motherhood and its physical and emotional connections. Oral accounts, family albums, individual photographs, works produced and theoretical support are organized through provocations that arise from understandings about generating, giving birth and caring, with the intention of contextualizing and being a starting point for the study. Oral narration as a guide for understanding photographs seen, giving rise to delayed and fictional dialogues about family records, since the person who takes the photo, the person being photographed, the person who sees and the person who narrates do not necessarily occupy the same place simultaneously. Orality permeated by the subjective and passive memory of detours with the passage of time. Photography as a process of mediation, language and art. The research mixes photographic and textual production with memory and fiction. I align the theoretical and empirical discussion through a dialogue between authors. The theoretical and methodological choices of ethnography and autoethnography provide strategies for collecting, storing, and interpreting data. For this research, I propose the methodology of maternalography, developed throughout the creation of the thesis, which brings together ethnographic tools and has a guiding line of creation and analysis: motherhood. The text has the contribution of theorists Adrienne Rich (2019), Ariela Azoulay (2021), and Tina Campt (2017), as well as Armando Silva (2008), Adolfo Montejo Navas (2017), and Etienne Samain (2011; 2003). As results, I seek what remains in time and memory, as well as construct what has been experienced and fantasize what is to come. Scenarios of life in the gestures of exchange and in the daily rites permeated by generating, giving birth, and caring.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1640014 - MARIA ANGELA PAVAN
Interno - 2312564 - DANIEL RODRIGO MEIRINHO DE SOUZA
Externa à Instituição - ANA PAULA SABIÁ - UDESC
Externa à Instituição - MARIA COLLIER DE MENDONÇA - UFPE