Peripheral life trajectories: violence between the ordinary and the extraordinary in (auto)biographical narratives and poetics
This project intends to investigate narrative and poetic structuring of political performances in the transits of life trajectories of subjects from the urban peripheries of Brazil, as a contribution to the study of mobilities in Applied Linguistics. Life trajectories indicates a methodological path in an attempt to understand the mobilities of enunciative forms that relate the individual and the collective and the performative nature of the multiple (auto)biographical practices. Violence, understood as a social marker that has been manifested in Brazilian society since the 1980s, is chosen as a thematic parameter to understand how peripheral subjects take part in political action as a response to the structural and state violence to which they are submitted. Thereby we seek to observe the transit between the ordinary language and the narratives of the extraordinary in the memories of violence, as well as to recognize the forms of mourning and trauma in these contexts. Within a methodological proposal of working on archived (auto)biographical resources, through an ethnographic approach, the research proposes to handle with corpora made up of various linguistic, semiotic and media typologies.
Researchers: Daniela Palma, Daniel Silva, Viviane Veras.
Research supported by FAPESP.
A museum of everyday life voices: performances in spoken life trajectories and social technologies of memory
Discursive making of the memory is the subject of this project, which proposes to study spoken life trajectories within a virtual museum of narratives. Life trajectories designates ways to understand enunciative mobilities that weaves individual and collective experiences and the performative nature of (auto)biographical practicesOral history performances as verbal arts (BAUMAN, 1977; BAUMAN; BRIGGS, 1990) are creative modes of narrativizing everyday life (CERTEAU, 2014). Museum of the Person (Museu da Pessoa), the empirical field of this research, is framed as a social technology of memory towards democratizing the making of history and it contributes to “communicative reconfiguration of knowing and storytelling” (MARTÍN-BARBERO, 2014). Methodologically, the project foresees assembling a corpus of audio or videotaped life trajectories, gathered through ethnographic work within the virtual museum’s collection. In analytical terms, this research aims to fabricate tools that enable interpretating formal patterns of performance and technological process, as well as broader social and cultural issues implicated in contextualization practices and the making of archive.
Researcher: Daniela Palma
Research supported by CNPq.