YOUTH MEDIATIONS: A PHOTOVOICE STUDY WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MÃE LUÍZA NEIGHBORHOOD
Youth Mediations, Mãe Luíza, Photovoice, accion-research
The neighborhood of Mãe Luiza is located a few kilometers from the center of Natal-RN, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. His name is a reference to the founding myth of a generous midwife who stood out for his services to women who lived in the region. Contrary to the oral reports of its residents who state that those who live, do not want to leave; the neighborhood witnesses the stigmatization of its territory daily by the local media, whether traditional or digital, and invested in capital to remove its residents. In view of this mediatization of a neighborhood with the image built through a barbaric and violent place, the present research seeks, based on a participatory visual method - called Photovoice (Wang and Burris, 2006) and an authorial method called Café com Bolo, understand the multiple youth mediations with 15 young people living in the place. The applied concepts of mediations were based on the authors Canclini (2019), Jesus Martín-Barbero (2019). We show that the present investigation is the result of an action research with more than two years of activity in the field and that counts on the teachings of the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2008) and the American psychologist Jean Twenge (2019) . The result is young people in addition to the stigma built from barbarism and violence, hyperconnected and confronting the whole idea of taboos imposed by society that defines them distant by means of a nebulous image with the crossing of the media.