Wanderings and narratives in everyday life: an ethnography of resistance beyond drugs
drug use, social trauma, war machines, territories.
The field of drugs is made up of an extensive set of practices, discourses, laws and norms that, aligned with moralistic pressure, serve as a substrate for drawing up legal guidelines made up of ethnic and ideological prejudices. Against this backdrop, the thesis deals with research that sought to highlight, from the perspective of individual lives, forms of resistance that oppose prohibitionist policies on a daily basis in the context of north-eastern Brazil. Using the ethnographic method, three time periods were constructed as a resource for immersion in the field, which we call ethnographic wanderings, wall-to-wall conversations and slipper-to-wall conversations. Based on the narratives heard throughout the research, we constructed the analyses based on three elements that emerged in these meetings: I) relationships between harmful drug use and the traumatic situations experienced and narrated by the participants; II) problematisation of how to witness and credit such narratives in the face of these bodies and desires taken as "deviant" in a prohibitionist society; and III) possible ways out as resistance in the face of everyday practices in relations with the territories accessed. In the early days of the research, in the surroundings of a CAPS AD III in a city in Paraíba, it was possible to compose a set of images and unique readings of the situations experienced in the territory, highlighting intersubjective, socio-institutional and spatial relationships. The analyses highlighted the importance of approaching everyday life to promote care and dialogue around trauma, from a social and political perspective, together with the reflection on denial proposed by Ferenczi, to see that these subjective expressions that were narrated become invisible, inaudible and untouched in the context of prohibition. However, as an alternative to this discrediting, Deleuze and Guattari proposed a discussion of the concept of war machines, making it possible to build places of resistance to the universalisations imposed by prohibition, through the creation of inventive lines of escape. Finally, we analysed territories in terms of their constituent elements (Deleuze and Guattari), using Michel de Certeau to highlight the importance of everyday life in building tactics to deal with situations of oppression. In this way, the analyses here propose a field of micro-revolutions, which have highlighted these partners as particular makers of their possibilities in the absence of a state apparatus