https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/8219 2026-04-17T05:45:46Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44032 Título: Câmera na terra árida: sertão, cinema e imaginário Autor(es): Silva Filho, Cláudio Almeida Primeiro Orientador: Câmara, Antônio da Silva Abstract: The Sertão and the Northeast are two interwoven elements: on one hand, the imaginary of a monolithic region; on the other, the image of an inhospitable place, trapped in its past and crystallized in time. This idealized conception has contributed to the construction of a social imaginary strongly shaped by a regional identity, with cinema serving as one of its primary forms of expression. This study analyzes three cinematic works: Vidas Secas (1962), by Nelson Pereira dos Santos; Baile Perfumado (1996), by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas; and Bacurau (2019), by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Each of these productions constructs a social imaginary of the Northeastern sertão, here understood as follows: the social imaginary of hunger, represented by Vidas Secas (1962); the historical social imaginary, expressed in Baile Perfumado (1996); and the political social imaginary, developed in Bacurau (2019). These symbolic constructions correspond to their respective social and cinematic contexts, yet they are also aesthetically and sociologically connected, as they mobilize timeless issues such as social inequalities, land conflicts, state absence, cangaço (banditry), messianism, among other fundamental aspects of the sertanejo imaginary. The methodology adopted is based on the decomposition and recomposition of scenes, combined with the technique of shot breakdown (decupagem), allowing for a detailed and in-depth analysis of the films, thus enhancing both interpretative density and investigative scope. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese 2026-01-08T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43746 Título: A decisão pela cirurgia bariátrica como projeto de superação do adoecimento vivido: uma abordagem interpretativa Autor(es): Barbosa, Jorge Henrique Silvestre Primeiro Orientador: Nascimento, Leonardo Fernandes Abstract: This research investigates how individuals construct the decision-making process for bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery (gastroplasty) is a surgical procedure aimed at drastically reducing a patient’s stomach to accelerate weight loss, focusing on the regression of comorbidities. The approach proposed herein to understand the decision for gastroplasty is based on participants’ narratives of their bariatric surgery experiences, adopting an interpretative stance toward the elements involved in this decision. This approach deviates from the direct debate on the medicalization of fat and sets aside the category of “obesity”. This distancing was necessary to enable an analysis that could encompass the complexity of the elements involved in the collected narratives. By setting aside the category of obesity, a specific categorization was established to understand how fatness is experienced throughout the individuals’ biographies: “weight” (body mass) and “body fat” (aesthetic and spatial dimension) are conceptualized as categories whose constituent elements can be experienced independently by individuals. Thirteen narratives were analyzed, collected from semi-structured interviews conducted online via voice or video calls. Given the insufficiency of dominant approaches in the Brazilian Social Sciences to interpret the collected data, this study adopted a theoretical framework grounded in authors from phenomenological-based Social Sciences. This theoretical framework, in conjunction with the methodology proposed herein, allowed for conclusions that reject the decision for bariatric surgery as being determined by the social effects of the medicalization of fat (e.g., stigmatization and pressure for aesthetic conformity). This thesis argues, therefore, that no specific element determines this decision. Rather, it is constructed from experiences of fatness established throughout the individuals’ biographies and emerges as a possible therapy within a “project” aimed at overcoming a lived “illness experience” (experiência de adoecimento). This illness is understood as any lived situation signified by the individual as a “limit-situation” that impedes the normal unfolding of their biographical flow and, ultimately, threatens their biographical continuity (potentially leading to extreme physical or psychological suffering, or death). Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese 2025-12-18T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43575 Título: Um estudo sobre as formas de representar na Câmara Municipal de Salvador (2021-2024) Autor(es): Isozaki, Mariana Alves Primeiro Orientador: Regatieri, Ricardo Pagliuso Abstract: This thesis aims to delve deeper into the relationship of representation through a study of the City Council in the 19th legislative term (2021-2024). To this end, we are guided by the theory of political representation to understand the links between representatives and those they represent, particularly Pollak's questions about “who,” “what,” and “how” they represent. Furthermore, we draw on studies on the relationship between state and society in Brazil and research on city councils, as well as the legislative output of the period studied. Thus, to achieve our objective, we use as secondary data the four most frequently used proposals of the city council — nomination bill, bill of law, motion, and request. We observe how council members use these proposals and we also thematically categorize the bills and nominations, evaluating their functions. These instruments play a role in the consolidation of formal social rights. Furthermore, we conducted semi-structured interviews with council members and advisors from different political backgrounds, genders, professions, and paths. It is clear that the population's main demands are material, related to survival. However, incumbent councilors, due to their relationship with the Executive, are better able to meet them. In this sense, the base councilors interviewed are more responsive to services and resource allocation. Opposition councilors tend to be more politically and symbolically responsive and report receiving demands for bills. Moreover, we observed that left-wing mandates tend to be more open-minded, considering social segments in their mandates. Thus, they differ in “how” they represent, by constructing their mandates more inclusively and by bringing those they represent into institutional spaces. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese 2025-09-26T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43558 Título: Transfronteiriços: neoliberalismo, regimes de fronteira e regulação punitiva da mobilidade subalterna Autor(es): Almeida, Ricardo Gesteira Ramos de Primeiro Orientador: Ivo, Anete Brito Leal Abstract: This thesis aims to analyze the relationship between neoliberal globalization and the constitution of a border regime characterized by a selective mediation of (un)desired flows that penalizes and stigmatizes the mobility of workers and families originating from countries in the periphery of the global capitalist system toward the system’s central regions and countries. The empirical reference for this study is the cities of Ceuta and Melilla—the only land borders between Africa and Europe—where the materiality of the enclosures and the intensity of the control processes exemplarily reveal the tensions and contradictions of a border between the Global South and the Global North. The notion of border used in the thesis encompasses both the physical and normative devices that regulate mobility and delimit territories, and its conception as a political and sociocultural mechanism whose functionality shapes the subjectivity of the subjects who cross them, in terms of their freedoms, rights, forms of insertion, and resistance. The thesis is interdisciplinary in nature, weaving together historical elements with sociological and international relations literature, combining varied sources and techniques, ethnographic resources, and social theory. It seeks to apprehend, simultaneously and from a relational perspective, the structuring and transmutation of the agents’ subjectivity in transborder spaces. To this end, the thesis is structured into two necessarily articulated analytical parts: The first (Part I) addresses the historical and institutional context of the border's formation, based on a political-historical genealogy of borders, particularly the enclosures of the Ceuta and Melilla borders; the intrinsic discussion between colonialism, neoliberal globalization, and the construction of the border; and the role of the border as a socioorganizational mechanism for the hierarchization of global social spaces. The presentation of the border's political history is fundamental to understanding the current phase of globalization, in which securitization, militarization, and the penalization of subaltern mobility are intrinsically linked to a neoliberal rationality that strains aspects of liberal democracy and sovereignty itself. The second part (Part II) analyzes, from a relational perspective, this neoliberal border regime as a lived experience by those who cross it and are crossed by its physical, material, and symbolic dimensions, in the face of the socio-spatial oppositions structured at the Ceuta border, and their impacts on historically integrated communities. This intersubjective analysis made possible the construction of the notion of subaltern mobility and explicitly detailed its implications in the emergence of processes and the formation of groups based on their modes of insertion, but also of resistance and subversion: the experience of unaccompanied young migrants in the city of El Masnou (Catalonia) who face stigmatization and seek recognition and dignity; and the situation of immobility imposed on Moroccan transborder workers during the complete border closure (in the context of Covid), which catalyzed the self-recognition of their precarious condition, impelling them to organize a collective struggle that challenges global inequalities and paves the way for the imagination of more inclusive and just forms of citizenship, uniting them as (political) subjects of a subaltern mobility.; Esta tesis tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre la globalización neoliberal y la constitución de un régimen de frontera caracterizado por una mediación selectiva de flujos (in)deseados que penaliza y estigmatiza la movilidad de trabajadores o familias originarias de países de la periferia del sistema capitalista global hacia regiones y países centrales del sistema. Toma como referencia empírica las ciudades de Ceuta y Melilla, únicas fronteras terrestres entre África y Europa, donde la materialidad de los cercamientos y la intensidad de los procesos de control revelan, de modo ejemplar, las tensiones y contradicciones de una frontera entre el Sur y el Norte globales. La noción de frontera, utilizada en la tesis, abarca tanto dispositivos físicos y normativos que regulan la movilidad y delimitan territorios, como su concepción como un dispositivo político y sociocultural cuya funcionalidad modela la subjetividad de los sujetos que las atraviesan, en sus libertades, derechos, formas de inserción y resistencia. La tesis, de carácter interdisciplinario, entrelaza elementos históricos con la literatura sociológica y de las relaciones internacionales, combinando fuentes y técnicas variadas, recursos etnográficos y teoría social, con el fin de aprehender, al mismo tiempo, la estructuración y transmutación de la subjetividad de los agentes en espacios transfronterizos, en una perspectiva relacional. Para ello, se estructura en dos partes analíticas necesariamente articuladas: la primera (Parte I) trata el contexto histórico e institucional de formación de la frontera, basándose en una genealogía político-histórica de las fronteras, en particular de los cercamientos de las fronteras de Ceuta y Melilla; de la discusión intrínseca entre colonialismo, globalización neoliberal y la construcción de la frontera, y del papel de la frontera como dispositivo socio-organizacional de jerarquización de los espacios sociales globales. La presentación de la historia política de la frontera es fundamental para la comprensión de la fase actual de la globalización, en la cual la securitización, militarización y penalización de la movilidad subalterna están intrínsecamente ligadas a la racionalidad neoliberal, que tensiona aspectos de la democracia liberal y de la propia soberanía. La segunda parte (Parte II) analiza, desde una perspectiva relacional, este régimen de frontera neoliberal como experiencia vivida por aquellos que la atraviesan y son atravesados por sus dimensiones física, material y simbólica, ante las oposiciones socioespaciales estructuradas en la frontera de Ceuta, y sus impactos en comunidades históricamente integradas. Este análisis intersubjetivo hizo posible la construcción de la noción de movilidad subalterna y explicitó sus implicaciones en la emergencia de procesos y en la formación de grupos a partir de sus modos de inserción, pero también de resistencia y subversión: la experiencia de los jóvenes migrantes no acompañados en la ciudad de El Masnou (Cataluña) que enfrentan la estigmatización y buscan reconocimiento y dignidad; y la situación de inmovilidad impuesta a las trabajadoras y trabajadores transfronterizos marroquíes, con el cierre integral de la frontera (en el contexto de la Covid), que cataliza el autorreconocimiento de su condición precaria, impulsándolos a la organización de una lucha colectiva que desafía las desigualdades globales y abre camino a la imaginación de formas más inclusivas y justas de ciudadanía, uniéndolos como sujetos (políticos) de una movilidad subalterna. Editora / Evento / Instituição: UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA Tipo: Tese 2025-10-09T00:00:00Z