[pt] O trabalho em questão visa analisar o papel dos advogados populares junto ao avanço dos movimentos sociais no Brasil. Estes profissionais ganharam relevo com as transformações da Carta Constitucional de 1988 e seus efeitos na emergência de novos sujeitos e novos direitos na seara política. Também, o fenômeno da judicialização da política, vem demarcando, a cada dia, o Direito como um acirrado campo de disputas e lutas simbólicas pelo monopólio de tradução e atuação das causas e repertórios (capital social), lutas que transbordam nos demais campos sociais (político, cultural, etc.), ressignificando o papel destes agentes e suas visões/ projetos de sociedade, e das bandeiras de luta dos movimentos sociais. Buscar-se-á entender quem são estes atores jurídicos, quais suas estratégias de atuação, como estabelecem o diálogo com os movimentos sociais e por fim, como constroem um perfil de militância profissional que tem como eixo o compromisso político e ético que norteia seu ativismo. Para tanto refletiremos a contribuição das dimensões da utopia e da tradição messiânica do romantismo revolucionário nas identidades do advogado popular como catalisador de uma ação política cercada de ideais de Justiça e projetos emancipatórios. / [en] The dissertation seeks to analyze the role of popular lawyers with the advancement of social movements in Brazil. These professionals attained relevance with the transformations of the Constitutional Charter of 1988 and its effects on the emergence of new subjects and new rights in political matters. Also, the phenomenon of judicialization of politics, has been pivotal in making the law as a fierce battleground and symbolic struggles for the monopoly of translations and actions in the causes and repertoires (social capital), such struggles, which overflow in other social fields (political, cultural, etc.), redefining the role of these agents and their society projects and views, and rallying points of social movements. This work shall seek to understand who are these legal actors, what are their strategies of action, how they establish dialogues with social movements and finally, how they build a professional profile of militancy that is centered on the political and ethical commitments that guides their activism. To do so, this essay shall think the contribution of the dimensions of both utopian and the messianic tradition at the romanticism in the popular lawyer identities as a catalyst for political action surrounded by ideals of justice and emancipatory projects.

Located squarely within the experiences of legal aid lawyers, with particular emphasis on the challenges they face in delivering effective representation, this dissertation, designed as an institutional ethnography, problematizes the provisions and practices related to involuntary admission in psychiatric facilities in Poland, as well as the organization of legal aid representation in involuntary admission cases. Through detailed accounts of paramedics, psychiatrists, judges, and legal aid lawyers’ work, connected and coordinated by legal and administrative texts, I demonstrate how the disjuncture between institutional regimes and lawyers’ experiences is institutionally produced by the set of legal, professional, financial, and social relations that organize both the involuntary admission procedure and the system of legal aid in Poland. While I start my exploration with legal aid lawyers’ embodied experiences of performing their work, accounting for how that work is organized and coordinated in local sites, this dissertation moves beyond a solo ethnographic description in seeking to discover relations, especially the social and legal relations mediated by the texts that govern these local experiences and practices. I trace the material and discursive practices that operate in key sites to organize the legal aid system, involuntary commitment procedures, and judicial decision-making. In Poland, the overwhelming majority of involuntary commitment cases are taken on by legal aid lawyers, whose work conduct is bound by both the law and a code of professional ethics. In this dissertation, I advance my thesis by closely reviewing the legal context of involuntary commitment; the material practices associated with legal aid lawyers, such as appointment, client access, and remuneration; the processes through which psychiatric documents are created and attached to admittees; and the role psychiatrist-generated texts play in court. I argue that within the context of involuntary admission, lawyering is organized in such a way that legal aid attorneys are unable to perform at their utmost, in a way that would most benefit their clients. Moreover, through my research I show that―despite perhaps their best intentions―legal aid lawyers not only actively participate in the practices that circumscribe the space for their legal advocacy for admittees, but also reproduce the very discourses and practices that objectify people during involuntary admission procedures to psychiatric facilities in Poland. / Graduate

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