Taking a different course: the relationship between State and feminist movement in Rio Grande do Norte
State. feminist movement. Interaction repertoires. Public policy.
This dissertation aims to identify the existing interaction repertoires between the feminist movements of Rio Grande do Norte and the state government, in the context of the implementation of the Undersecretariat for Women's Policy, from 2019 onwards. To reach the appropriate conclusions, we used Brazilian studies on the development of distinct and complex relations between social movements and the State, which combine a diversity of collective actions that are interspersed in moments of confrontation and/or cooperation, especially in the Brazilian context after the 2000s. In addition to these theoretical assumptions, the theory of political process, more specifically the concept of repertoire of action and repertoire of interaction and contributions from feminist studies. The data were collected through the analysis of narratives collected through semi-structured interviews with key actresses of the RN's gender policies subsystem, pointing to changes in the action and interaction repertoires of feminists and the government, in the post 2019 period Among the changes is a greater influence on the formulation of public policies obtained through acting in participatory state institutions and occupying positions in the bureaucracy. However, this is due to the favorable political context in the state, which brings together a government open to dialogue with the movements, a representative legislature and the existence of movements with a long history of mobilization. Even though the current government manages to implement the PT model of social participation in management, the interviews show that the movements needed to adapt to a covid-19 pandemic context and join new channels of activism, such as the virtual one.