YOUTH MEDIATIONS: A PHOTOVOICE STUDY WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MÃE LUÍZA NEIGHBORHOOD
Mãe Luíza; Youth; Glocal Contexts; Youth mediations; Photovoice.
A few kilometers from the city center of Natal-RN, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, there is a neighborhood called Mãe Luíza. Bordered by the city's highest HDI neighborhoods, as well as Parque das Dunas and the Atlantic Ocean. We observe that its residents are in an eternal struggle against real estate speculation and the frequent onslaughts of the media that tend to reduce it to a marginalized and barbaric neighborhood, so present in the city's collective imagination - even if its indexes, such as Development. Human, Mortality Rate and IDEB point to different perspectives. The research meets these reductions, recognizing glocal scenarios (SERRES, 1990; SANTOS, 1999) from a participatory visual method - Photovoice (Wang and Burris, 2006) to discuss the numerous mediations of their youth - influences, perspectives and interrelationships with peers and other territories. We evidence that this research is the result of an action research and that counts on the teachings of the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2008). The result is young people beyond the stigma of barbaric and violent, hyperconnected and confronting taboos imposed by society.