135f. / Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-08-26T15:18:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERT_VERSAO_FINAL Thais Brito da Silva.pdf: 617058 bytes, checksum: 966d0431991e10dbe6ab5f440cfa44da (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela(anapoli@ufba.br) on 2013-08-26T15:44:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERT_VERSAO_FINAL Thais Brito da Silva.pdf: 617058 bytes, checksum: 966d0431991e10dbe6ab5f440cfa44da (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-26T15:44:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERT_VERSAO_FINAL Thais Brito da Silva.pdf: 617058 bytes, checksum: 966d0431991e10dbe6ab5f440cfa44da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / CAPES / Esta pesquisa apresenta uma análise das posições políticas dos movimentos sociais articulados em torno do jornal Brasil de Fato sobre o governo Lula. Por um lado, a respeito de como este governo se relaciona com o bloco de poder e a hegemonia política no Brasil; por outro lado, como se relaciona com estes movimentos e em que medida contribui ou não com processos contra hegemônicos. As questões suscitadas na pesquisa foram desenvolvidas a partir da análise de conteúdo das edições do jornal Brasil de Fato no período de 2003 a 2007, nos meses de janeiro, março, junho, setembro e dezembro de cada ano. Ao todo, foram estudadas 25 edições das primeiras semanas dos meses indicados. O pensamento de Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) e o legado teórico da sua produção intelectual é o referencial teórico principal da análise. Considerando a perspectiva gramsciana que identifica a vida estatal como uma contínua formação e superação de equilíbrios instáveis entre os interesses dos grupos fundamentais e os interesses dos grupos subordinados, o estudo apresenta as posições políticas dos movimentos sociais articulados no jornal Brasil de Fato sobre o governo Lula e coloca problemas e questões relacionados a um cenário de convivência entre alianças de classes, concessões programáticas e tentativas de conciliação de interesses conflitantes empreendidas pelo governo Lula. Ao mesmo tempo, tem-se uma conjuntura identificada, inicialmente, como favorável aos movimentos sociais, que demonstram esperar que o governo realize as mudanças ansiadas pelas classes populares, que faça reformas estruturais, mas é um cenário que vai se mostrando, nas avaliações dos intelectuais que se posicionaram no Brasil de Fato, desestruturador das forças de esquerdas no país. This research presents an analysis over the political facts and acts of social movements during Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's government as presented in Brasil de Fato newspaper. In one hand, is presented how government related with the political hegemony in Brazil. In the other, how does it related with the social movements and in what degree the government contributed or not with counterhegemony processes. That questions developed in this research rose during the analysis of 25 editions of Brasil de Fato newspapers from the first weeks of January, March, June, September and December, from 2003 to 2007. Antonio Gramsci's (1891-1937) theories is the intellectual basis of the analysis. We consider Gramsci perspective that identifies the state life as a continuous training and upgrading of unstable balance between the interests of key groups and interests of subordinate groups, the study presents the political views of social movements in Brazil de Fato newspaper about the Lula government and poses problems and issues related to a scenario of coexistence of class alliances, awards program and attempts to reconcile conflicting interests taken by this government. At the same time, the situation initially identified as favorable to the social movements - that expected the government to make changes yearn for the working classes - to make structural reforms, became – as showed on the evaluations of intellectuals who were stationed in Brasil de Fato - a scenario of destructuring the left a scenario that in the country. / Salvador

This thesis presents a critique of counterhegemony, arguing that imperatives of unity and coherence in social movement theory and practice tend to limit potentials for transformation. I use the 'new social movement theory' of Alberto Melucci and Alain Touraine in order to foreground the problem of intelligibility. Laclau and Mouffe’s conception of articulation is used to develop the problem of intelligibility, and helps to avoid reification. However, I argue that their concept of counterhegemony presents a blackmail where social movements either represent themselves in universal terms, or are cast as merely fragmented and particular. The Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts molarization and molecularization are used to argue that social movements that appear fragmented or vague may in fact be transformative in unexpected ways. The final chapter focuses on a recent guerilla garden at the University of Victoria, and I argue that it is significant in its capacity to foreground problems and suspend commonsense habits, without presenting a coherent and unified programme.

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