The novelty asks for passage: the mobilization cycles against the increase of the transport tariff
in Natal in 2005 and 2012
Political Confrontation. Social movements. Student movement. Interpretive framework.
The focus of this dissertation is the comparison between two cycles of protests that, although they claim around the same theme, the increase of the passage of buses in the municipality of Natal, approaches two distinct periods, 2005 (Vampire Hunt of Public Transport and Season and the 2012 (Revolta Do Busão), in which the repertoire and the political narrative of the movement were quite different. In the first case, the traditional entities of the movement, with their methods of organization and action prevailed. In the second case, in 2012, despite the participation of traditional entities (UMES, APES, DCE UFRN), they were not able to repeat the 2005 repertoire and not even the interpretation of the movement on the transportation problem. Thus, the starting point of this dissertation is: Why did the 2005 protest differ from 2012? What has changed in the political and organizational context of the movement for change in the repertoire and in the interpretative framework on transportation? The protests against the increase of the bus ticket in Natal in 2005 and 2012 lasted several weeks, attracted the attention of the media and society, and were composed of analytical dimensions that deserve to be studied from the tool developed by the research agenda of the collective action. The initial hypothesis of this dissertation is that, as of 2006, the traditional entities of the student movement enter into a crisis of articulation of material resources, in the face of the loss of funding of the student's portfolio, thereby depleting their repertoire of performance against the increase of the bus ticket. These entities, with repertoire dependent on material resources, enter into crisis and leave a vacuum in the movement, which is occupied by MPL. The MPL was already organizing itself nationally with a repertoire less dependent on material resources
and opposed to the repertoire of the traditional entities of the movement. The trigger for this was the 2012 Bus Revolt. With the traditional student movement divided in its tactics and institutionally weakened, the unity of the MPL and its relationship with organizations present in the traditional student movement produce strength behind the scenes generating a predominance of its repertoire and framework interpretative in the protests of 2012.