Cartographies of experiences and affections of socioeducative techniques in a deprivation of liberty unit in Pernambuco
Socioeducation. Socioeducative Techniques. Experiences. Precarization. Cartography.
In this study, a study-intervention using socioeducative techniques was conducted in a deprivation of liberty unit in Pernambuco State to map the experiences and affections of professionals in the relations produced in the workspace. Specifically, this study aimed to identify the knowledge/power/truth relation that permeates the subjective processes in the relations established by the Socioeducative Attendance Policy and the corroboration and/or resistance positioning toward the adolescence liability policy that involves the infringement. It was investigated how the professionals signify the social, educative, and political implications of the measures in the teenager lives and develop with them a space of ethical-aesthetic-political articulations in the socioeducative context. In addition to the theorical-methodological perspective, as theoretical interlocutors, the biopolitical and necropolitical perspectives of Michel Foucault (2005) and Achille Mbembe (2018), respectively, were utilized. Considering the methodology, a cartographical approach was applied using weekly meetings conducted in the unit where the professionals work. As recording tools, an audio recorder and notes diary were used. The analyses of experiences and affections – from the techniques and from the researcher – were developed using the analyzers that emerged during the meetings and were discussed considering historical, political, theoretical, and conjectural instruments that compose the field and pervade the participants. As the main affectations, one of the precarization paths of the teenager lives in the socioeducation system is the precarization of the lives and practices of the professionals responsible for assisting the teenagers. This occurs by means of the power-knowledge relations that weaken the workforce in its entirety in the daily routine, producing flaws and lack of communication that cyclically reverberate in silencing and isolation dynamics among the professionals and, as a result, their sickness.