Banca de DEFESA: ELISA ELSIE COSTA BATISTA DA SILVA BESERRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ELISA ELSIE COSTA BATISTA DA SILVA BESERRA
DATE: 30/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY AND FABULATION: VOICES AND SILENCES OF A MOTHERNOGRAPHY

KEY WORDS:

Photography; memory; autoethnography; maternalography; family album

PAGES: 250
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Teoria da Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This research weaves together image and text production with memory, motherhood, and sensitive storytelling, stitching together theoretical and empirical discussion in a dialogue between the researcher and authors. The theoretical and methodological choices of ethnography and autoethnography provide strategies for data collection, storage, and interpretation. The methodology proposed in this investigation, maternography, brings together tools with motherhood as the guiding thread for creation, analysis, and the key to family rituals. Motherhood, as a concrete experience with its physical and affective connections, in dialogue with Vera Iaconelli (2023) and Adrienne Rich (2019), can influence and relate to the processes of archiving family photographs and personal artistic photographic works. The accounts, family albums (Silva, 2008), photographs (Campt, 2017; Sontag, 2004; Calderón, 2020; Didi-Huberman, 2017; 2018; Navas, 2017), the works produced, and the theoretical framework are organized through the provocations arising from the experiences of conceiving, giving birth, and caring, serving as context and starting point for the study. Oral narration guided part of the understanding of the images, giving rise to postponed and fictional dialogues about family records, since the person taking the photo, the person being photographed, the person seeing, and the person narrating do not necessarily occupy the same place simultaneously. Memory is understood through the subjectivity mobilized by the contributions of Ecléa Bosi (1994; 2004), Lélia Gonzalez (2020), and Svetlana Alexievich (2016), being subject to detours, silences, and inventiveness with the passage of time. Photography as a process of mediation, language, and art is also reflected upon by Geórgia Quintas (2014), Édouard Glissant (2008), Roland Barthes (1984), and Carlos Severi (2020). As a result, I seek to imagine what remains in time, in memory, and in photographs, from the construction of knowledge and imagistic scenarios of life made through material and artisanal gestures (Cusicanqui, 2025; Mills, 2009) of exchanges and daily rites woven by maternal threads.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1640014 - MARIA ANGELA PAVAN
Interno - ***.246.464-** - DANIEL RODRIGO MEIRINHO DE SOUZA - UFRJ
Interna - 1841870 - LILIAN CARLA MUNEIRO
Externa ao Programa - ***.000.000-** - MARIA DEL MAR MARCOS MOLANO - UCMADRID
Externa à Instituição - CLARISSA BORGES
Externa à Instituição - ANA PAULA SABIÁ - UDESC