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Alegorias do sofrimento e da resistência: disposições afetivas da política em imagens fotográficas
(Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, 2022-06) LAGE, Leandro Rodrigues
The purpose of the text is to present the general lines of an epistemological and also a methodological proposal for the debate on images, considered affective expressions of indignation, conviction and desire. It seeks to examine photographs of the artistic and photojournalistic regimes as allegories of the suffering and resistance of the Amazonian peoples, with the intention of discussing how these images manage and give visible and sensitive expression to experiences of suffering, to physiognomies of historical time, to survivals of the desire and political subjectivations. This proposal starts from the experimentalism of knowledge through allegories, rehearsing the theoretical-methodological productivity of the benjaminian allegorical episteme in the legibility of the images and tensioning the forms, correspondences, temporalities and conventions in the examination of images that offer an apprehension of history as an anachrony of sufferings and fights. The background to this approach is the inextricable link between image and politics.
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Aperetrecho, juventude e orquestra: ritualizações, interações e resistência no boi de máscaras faceiro
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2019-04) PALHA, Rondinell Aquino; FERNANDES, Daniel dos Santos
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Aspectos resistentes e performáticos nas tragédias medeia, Electra e as Troianas de Eurípedes
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-12) PINTO, Rosane Castro; SARMENTO-PANTOJA, Carlos Augusto Nascimento
This paper presents a study of the tragedies Medea, Electra and The Trojans of Euripides, in which we discuss how the performance and endurance is. We will concentrate on analyzing the female characters the tragic elements and how the narrative is important for understanding the categories violence, memory and oblivion. To understand the theories related to performance, endurance and trauma will use the texts of authors like Jorge Glusberg (1980) which ensures the performance one related to delirium, manifested through the unconscious performer desire, because "the resulting speech is close to delirium and also, truth that is always raving "(Glusberg 1980, p.124). As Sarmento-Pantoja, which states that, the performance can also be considered as a performance built by the characters, "for us this performance can be critical to understand what we call suffering performance" (SARMENTO-PANTOJA, 2002 p.23). Alfredo Bosi notes that resistance is "opposing force itself to external forces" (BOSI, 2002, p. 118) in which we understand as opposition forces that conflict with each other.
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Bem viver vivido, conquistado e almejado: um estudo sobre comunidades tradicionais que lutam por reconhecimento territorial na Baixada Maranhense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-03-29) BRITO, Ciro de Souza; SHIRAISHI NETO, Joaquim; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1945327707689415; PORRO, Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3982338546545478
The notion of buen vivir emerges inspired by the knowledge emanating from the ways of life of indigenous peoples of Latin America, being presented by academics and militants as an alternative to the models of achievement of the State based on the hegemonic proposals of development. Since its incorporation into the constitutional order of Bolivia and Ecuador, on the basis of this notion, nature has been elevated to the position of subject of rights, historically occupied only by human beings. In this notion, there is an intrinsic relation between human beings and nature, and a strong linkage of traditional peoples and communities to their territories. In this sense, this dissertation sought to analyze the notion of buen vivir in the light of a land regularization case for traditional peoples and communities in Brazil. It is a claim for regularization as a quilombo by traditional communities of the Sesmaria do Jardim Territory, in the Baixada Maranhense, an area of natural fields that are composed of dry lands and wetlands inserted in the Environmental Protection Area of Baixada Maranhense, which is considered a site under the Ramsar Convention. The research was carried out based on a critical review of the literature in the light of observed and participated empirical processes and by means of action research with the communities involved and with the land agency that formalizes the process of land regularization. The work has a juridical and anthropological approach, has a qualitative character and was carried out from July 2016 to January 2018, with field work in the villages and in the Institute of Colonization and Lands of Maranhão. It was identified a complex link between the process and the form of land regularization with the notion of buen vivir, given the diversity of traditional groups in situation of conflict in common territory. It was learned that, on the same territory, there are groups with different conceptions on how to live on shared lands and water bodies: while self-identified Quilombolas conceive the notion of buen vivir based on commons, while others reject this notion and its consequences. These antagonists, even those with shared ancestrality, do not share the notion of buen vivir based on common use of certain components of nature, because their practices and forms of private appropriation of nature disqualify and are incompatible with this notion. This creates conflicts that have forced traditional communities to mobilize in the face of violations of rights and to find solutions that will allow them to recover the so called time of buen vivir and to guarantee their right to land - dry and flooded lands - that allows their physical and social reproduction. The case investigated showed that buen vivir is constructed from the articulation of specific territorialities, in which distinct conceptions and forms of appropriation of nature can be responsible for breaking the cohesion of community and territory, although the traditional communities can cope with certain degree of dissent based on the right to difference. The study also shows that buen vivir has being built at daily basis, through social and juridical practices that embrace resistance as current practice and freedom as a desired stage. However, buen vivir, in the discourse, is viewed as a potential better future. The research aims to problematize and better qualify who and in what situation subjects have rights to have which rights and the effectiveness of that issue. This dissertation is, therefore, a reading and a reflection about social and localized processes as emerging alternatives for the attainment of lived, participated and conquered buen vivir.
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Capoeira: sobrevivência e resistência na sociedade do capital
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-08-14) SILVA, Francisco Márcio Costa da; SILVA, Élido Santiago da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3584642268601018; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2545-0860
The present study within its scope brings forth notes that outline the current configurations of Capoeira and its functions in the everyday social context. From the premise that Capoeira is a practice originating from the diaspora as a means to resist an oppressive system (ABIB, 2004), and it was consolidated in Brazil during the period of slavery (Rego, 1968), it still endures and has both national and international reach, being present in over 150 countries across the five continents according to the latest survey by IPHAN (2014). The central concern of this research endeavor lies in comprehending the resilience of a longstanding practice stemming from the era of enslavement in the context of the contemporary capitalist system. As posited by Mészáros (2005), which commodifies all aspects of existence. References employed for this study include Marx (2007, 2008, 2011, 2013), Mészáros (2005, 2015), Antunes (2009), Vasquez (2011), and various others, thereby providing foundational insights into the workings of the aforementioned system were used. Regarding Capoeira, this study draws upon the works of Rego (1968), Brito and Granada (2021), Khol (2014), Araújo (2006, 2008), Campos (2001, 2009), Falcão (2004, 2011), Abib (2004), among others, to elucidate the conditions and various facets through which Capoeira has evolved as a sporting and cultural practice, persevering over time and in response to structural changes driven by capitalism. In pursuit of comprehending how Capoeira endures to the present day and the dimensions it encompasses, an extensive search was conducted both nationally and internationally to engage with individuals who have been practitioners of Capoeira for a minimum of ten years. They were queried about the ways in which Capoeira manifests itself within their respective contexts. As a result, it was observed that there have been numerous changes in this practice since its inception. However, it is its ability to undergo metamorphosis that has enabled it to adapt to social demands, transforming itself into a pluralistic practice. However, its condition as a commodity was emphasized as predominant. This path has ensured other possibilities for survival within the capitalist system, with labor (both in its formative and subsistence aspects) serving as the foundation that has facilitated its longevity and continuity to the present day, reaffirming Capoeira's embryonic role as a form of resistance in diverse circumstances.
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O cinema de luta dos Mêbengôkre-Kayapó: as múltiplas dimensões de resistência nos filmes e práticas de produção do Coletivo Beture
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-08-30) GOMES, Angela Nelly dos Santos; LAGE, Leandro Rodrigues; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2396184188116499; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6814-9640
This research reflects on the cinema produced by Mebêngôkre-Kayapó indigenous filmmakers, focusing on the films and production practices of the Beture Collective, which brings together filmmakers from this ethnic group in the state of Pará, Brazil. The aim is to understand how the cinema of the Beture Mebêngôkre-Kayapó Collective expresses dimensions or meanings of resistance through its works and filmmaking practices, in relation to the socio-political or cultural struggles of the ethnic group. In order to understand how cinema is appropriated and transformed into an ally in these struggles, and in what dimensions this occurs or is expressed, we analyzed the works of the Beture Collective that are representative of their production; we observed and analyzed the group's production practices in an attempt to understand how they relate to the resistance processes of the Mebêngôkre people; what the motivations and objectives of filmmaking are and how the Beture Collective appropriates techniques, technologies and cinematographic or audiovisual language and adapts them to their objectives according to their worldview. This is a qualitative study developed through film analysis and field research with open-ended interviews and observational participation. The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary in that it combines film and image studies with Latin American criticism from the perspective of decolonial studies, as well as concepts related to indigenous studies from anthropology, sociology and geography, which converge with the subject of the research, in order to understand the meanings of resistance that are expressed, constitute or cross Mebêngôkre cinema. The research highlights the complexity of Mebêngôkre cinema and the Beture Collective, which is born and develops in a way that is intertwined with the sociopolitical and cultural issues of the ethnic group and indigenous peoples as a whole. We conclude that the cinema of the Beture Collective is a cinema of struggle, a multifaceted practice of resistance, since it is born and develops intrinsically to the struggles for rights in various senses, for the preservation and demarcation of territories, for affirmation as a producer of their images, narratives and memories, and presentation of their ways of seeing and being in the world. A cinema that is also mediation in the complex ethnic and intercultural interrelationship with indigenous and non-indigenous society.
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Cinema e resistência: a ditadura militar brasileira em Zuzu Angel, de Sergio Rezende
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-12) CALEGARI, Lizandro Carlos
From 1964 to 1985, Brazil experienced the Military Dictatorship, to which images of extreme violence are linked. The artistic production of that moment came to represent such a historical situation, seeking to produce works that were against the ideology of the authoritarian power. Aside from literary works and musical expressions, many films were made to “speak” about that period. The purpose of this article is to deal with the concepts of resistance and cinema in order to verify how these words help in an analysis of Sergio Rezende’s Zuzu Angel (2006). Walter Benjamin, Alfredo Bosi, and Márcio Seligmann-Silva are the main authors who underscore the present approach.
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Criminologia crítica e apagamento político na compreensão do encarceramento no Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-01-05) FERREIRA, Nilton Carlos Noronha; GOMES, Marcus Alan de Melo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0371519214729478
The present research sought to understand the dynamics involving imprisonment and resistance in Brazil. This is an explanatory and qualitative research, whose method of approach was the deductive, using the technique of bibliographical research. In this sense, the research problem that guided the analysis was: to what extent can the dynamics of resistance in prison be understood from the perspective of Marxist criminology? Thus, the working hypothesis consisted to considering that, on the one hand, the exercise of punitive power mobilizes several grammars that support prison and, in this context, promote a political emptying of incarcerated individuals by inserting them in a position of subjection to the power exercised over them. On the other hand, considering an analytical perspective, it starts from the idea that critical criminology has formulated premises that reaffirm this logic, firstly, by undertaking a limited incorporation of the Marxist contribution and, secondly, by not having consistently developed an analysis of how individuals affected by criminalization processes deal with it. The general objective would be to investigate to what extent the dynamics of resistance in prison can be understood from the perspective of Marxist criminology, while the specific objectives are: a) to verify the challenges involved in understanding the context of imprisonment and resistance by criminology Marxist-based criticism; b) to examine the discourses that make up the grammar of prison, in order to glimpse what role is assigned to it; and c) analyze incarceration seeking to understand the articulations that aim at resistance to punitive power. In this sense, the research presents an initial overview that proposes to articulate epistemological and analytical questions about the projections of discourses on prison about political mobilizations undertaken by individuals submitted to the logic of incarceration, inside or outside the prison walls.
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De Carlos Eugênio à “Codinome Clemente”, entrevista com Isa Albuquerque
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-06) SARMENTO-PANTOJA, Carlos Augusto Nascimento; SARMENTO-PANTOJA, Tânia Maria Pereira
Interview held on October 15, 2020, as an activity of the VII International Seminar on Literature and Resistance Film (SELCIR). The interview was conducted by PhD. Augusto Sarmento-Pantoja and had the collaboration of PhD. Tânia Sarmento-Pantoja and the participation of Filmmaker Isa Albuquerque and researcher and widow of Carlos Eugênio, PhD. Maria Cláudia Badan Ribeiro. Below we transcribe some passages from the interview with Isa Albuquerque. The full interview is available on video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9LQuU0pKsQ.
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(Des)silenciando os rastros da marujada de São Benedito em crônicas da revista Bragança ilustrada
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013-06) ALENCAR, Larissa Fontinele de
We propose the analysis of chronic “O Esperado” by Lobão da Silveira and “O Chamado” by Jorge Ramos, both published in the decade in 1952, in the magazine Bragança Ilustrada, on the assumption the silencing of tracks reminiscent of the period of slavery black and religion of African descent in Brazil, which produce multiple indicators of resistance silently observed in literary codes which omit evidence of a culture originally syncretized with African Catholicism dominant in the era of colonial Brazil. Thus, we will highlight studies of the trail and silence, as well as a theoretical discussion about memory, dialoguing with an ethnographic approach about the Marujada de São Benedito from Bragança-Pa, and then analyzes the chronicles.
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Deste palácio que em breve se transformará em ruínas: o Brasil ditatorial na Brasília de Nicolas Behr
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-12) SALGUEIRO, Wilberth Claython Ferreira; CORDEIRO, Leandra Postay
This paper aims to compare the city of Brasilia, as represented in Nicolas Behr's poetry, with the situation of Brazil during the period of military dictatorship, by the means of analyzing some of Behr's poems. Taking into account the concept of literature as testimony, our discussions will be focused on issues of authoritarianism, ideological control, and the role of literature in the constitution of historical memory.
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O Direito à consulta e consentimento prévio, livre e informado na construção de resistências: a elaboração do protocolo comunitário autônomo de consulta como instrumento de garantia de direitos fundamentais na Comunidade Quilombola de São José de Icatu - Baião/PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-11-08) PEREIRA, Adhara Abdala Nogueira Pereira; CASTRO, Fábio Fonseca de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5700042332015787; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8083-1415
In response to the secular movement of occupation and exploitation that energizes Traditional Peoples and Communities in the Amazon, these groups' great activity was to appropriate more legal and normative instruments to add to their struggles and resistance. In this context, the Quilombola Community São José de Icatu stands out, located between the municipalities of Baião and Mocajuba, in the region of Baixo Tocantins, State of Pará; as being today an example of mobilization and social organization for the surrounding communities. In this sense, Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization has been the instrument that most stands out in the current scenario faced by them, it was through the knowledge of the right to Consultation and Prior, Free and Informed Consent - CCPLI, that they began to recognize the importance of their culture and the guarantee of fundamental rights; which motivated the elaboration of the Autonomous Community Protocol for Prior Consultation and Consent; being the first Quilombola community in the region to have this initiative. Thus, this paper seeks to understand, from the understanding of the community of São José de Icatu, how the right to Free, Informed Prior Consultation and the process of elaboration of Consultation Protocols could be considered an instrument to guarantee fundamental rights of the Quilombola Community against the threats of the development process, despite the link between heritage and occupation, as a symbolic and political construction in the unity of the group over time. To this end, research was carried out using interdisciplinary methods, at different times, first by conducting a conversation circle in an event held in the community in 2019, and the second by semi-structured interviews, in 2021; supported by the analysis of bibliographic and documental data. So, we conclude that the community recognizes in the CPLI an instrument to guarantee rights, as well as the expectation of the effectiveness of a legitimate document, which meets the internal demands and cosmovision of its subjects, in the elaboration of the Consultation Protocols, even though there are political and institutional barriers that try to make such effectiveness unfeasible. This way, community members consider both instruments as means capable of solving external and internal demands and conflicts, adding to the defense of their culture, territory, and rights, and contributing to the struggle for resistance and existence of this community.
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Espetacularização da violência e a resistência na contística de Clarice Lispector e Caio Fernando Abreu
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-06) FERREIRA, Rennan Willian Vasconcelos; SARMENTO-PANTOJA, Carlos Augusto Nascimento
This article analyzes the spectacularization of violence and resistance found in Brazilian short stories produced after 1964, in two short stories A lingua do “P”, (1974) by Clarice Lispector, and Terça-feira Gorda (1982), by Caio Fernando Abreu. These productions come closer as they serve as an important mechanism for contesting, directly and/or indirectly, the dictatorial regime established in the country. We will take as theoretical foundation the studies of Alfredo Bosi (2002), Augusto Sarmento-Pantoja (2013) and Sandra Pesavento (2006), in an attempt to assimilate how the tales of such decades are intrinsically linked to a will to resist, conceiving the voices to the silenced by oppression and providing reflections on the coercive practices that led the individual to rethink their human condition.
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Imagens do espaço urbano e da violência em canções da música popular
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-12) CORNELSEN, Élcio Loureiro
This brief study aims to establish a relationship between urban space and violence, and the way in which this relationship is present in the lyrics of popular music songs. Lyrics from four songs were selected to compose the corpus of analysis: “De frente pro crime” (1975), by João Bosco, “Veraneio vascaína” (1986), by the group Capital Inicial, “Periferia é periferia” (1997), by the group Racionais MC's, and “Minha alma” (1999), by the group O Rappa. We start from the concept of violence, as proposed by Tânia Pellegrini as “the use of force to cause physical or psychological harm to another person”. The study showed that the main aspect in common between the four songs is the criticism of the potential for violence in the Brazilian urban space. Thus, such issues can also be understood in the key of the concept of resistance, as postulated by Michael Foucault and, respectively, Alfredo Bosi.
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Literatura e história: entrelaces da resistência nas obras "Órfãos do Eldorado" de Milton Hatoum e "Ilha da Ira" de João de Jesus Paes Loureiro
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-12) FERREIRA, Lourdes
The study seeks to make some reflections about the perceived interweaving between literature and history observed in the works Orphans of Eldorado Milton Hatoum and Island of Wrath by John Jesus Paes Loureiro, determining the work of memory, in point the historicity of a society and its way of dealing with situations limits of human experience. For both, the texts of Chartier (2001) will be examined, as well as the perception of resistance seen by Adorno (1970), the emergence of the imaginary, understood by Paes Loureiro (2001), for the development regarding the Amazonian culture.
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Memória de docentes universitários: resistência e luta no campus universitário de Abaetetuba
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2020-12) OLIVEIRA, Mara Rita Duarte de
This article is part of a broader research on the teachers of the Abaetetuba University Campus, which aimed to present the results of the research entitled Teaching memory and resistance narratives at the Federal University of Pará, from 2013 to 2017, part of the research financed by PIBIC / UFPA and another carried out without funding. The research was carried out with professors from the Abaetetuba University Campus, with the central objective of interpreting the strategies and devices of teacher resistance to the imposing models of installation of the heteronymous and neo professional University, from the teaching memory focusing on the narratives of the teachers of the Abaetetuba University Campus. Thus, we found that teachers are based on reflection as a way to experience and understand the sphere of the world of life and the system, using intellectual work as an activity of knowledge production and active participation in the University.
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Narrativas distópicas com protagonismos juvenil: memória e instinto de resistência em "The Maze Runner"
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-06) SARMENTO-PANTOJA, Tânia Maria Pereira
This study presents two categories – absent memory and resistance instinct – in order to analyze the distinguished characteristics of dystopian fiction, aimed at young adults. It analyzes “The Maze Runner” (homonymous novel and film) to establish the case study as it emphasizes the association between dystopia and science fiction, with particular attention to the elements of biopunk fiction.
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Práticas discursivas da diversidade sexual e políticas curriculares para a educação básica
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2017-12) RODRIGUES, José Rafael Barbosa; SILVA, Josenilda Maria Maués da
This paper is linked to the studies carried out in the Group of Studies and Research in Difference and Education - DIFERE, linked to the Graduate Program in Curriculum and Management of the Basic School - PPEB / ICED / UFPA. The research tries to problematize the discursive practices of Sexual Diversity, respect and tolerance, still aligned with the identity logic. The study invests in examining the ways in which these curricular texts operate and produce viable forms of experimentation on the body, gender and sexuality, thus acting as biopolitics that govern and demand self-care, establish rules for feasibility and inclusion of the other subject of education, especially the LGBT population. From the theoretical-methodological point of view, it is a theoretical investment that works with a bibliographical revision with emphasis on post-structuralist approaches that invest in the Thought of Difference in Education using analytical tools of the formulations of Michel Foucault.
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Quando o ativismo de fã-gamers entra em jogo: participação, resistências e práticas do Fandom de League of Legends no Brasil
(Universidade Caxias do Sul, 2017-12) MACEDO, Tarcízio Pereira; CUNHA, Elaide Martins da
From the understanding of fan activism as a form of everyday resistance, cultural, economic and creative, the goal of this job is to understand how and at what point the consumption of fan-garners becomes a political and civic participation, from a methodological triangulation with emphasis on the use of ethnographic inspirations. While empirical support, presents a mapping on some practices of fan-garners activism in the former official forum of the online game of League of Legend (LoL) in Brazil. Thus, propose is a typology of daily resistance practices in the LoL community in four different ways. The results of the approach indicate that the diversity of the universe of digital productions and practices of these fans re-signifies understandings of resistance and question the duality between citizenship and the consumption of pop culture, acting as catalysts that provide a variety of practices that (re)interpret and exceed the limits of the fandom.
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Resistir através da rede: análise netnográfica do movimento #adiaENEM no Norte do Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-11-09) BARBOSA, Ana Karoline; LIMA JUNIOR, Walter Teixeira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5189390968642420; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9423-3854
The coronavirus pandemic deeply changed people relationships and routines around the world. The impossibility of going out and meet friends and family through social distancing and self-quarantine, recommended by principal sanitary authorities, has been causing deeply impacts and consequences still impossible to be concluded. At this pandemic period, many sectors have been affected, as social distancing was required through the whole world. A particular event, which is this research main object, has gained broad debate not just on media, but also on online social media: the Brazilian High School National Exam (ENEM) application. Came about, then, the online social movement #adiaENEM, whose objective was to postpone the exam application that was scheduled to November 2020 and got transferred to January 2021. Given this context, the main objective of this study is to analyze the online social movement #adiaENEM on Twitter during COVID-19 pandemic period. This research proposes reflection about the pandemic and online manifestation through twitter social media, about the test postpone on northern region of Brazil. This study theoretical basis is on the understanding of online social movements (CASTELLS. RECUERO) and power relations (FOUCAULT. SCOTT) constructed through inequalities, daily resistance, transversal struggles, and the subject autonomy (MIGUEL). Proposing a methodological approach by netnography (KOZINETS) arranged in two moments, a content analysis and a network analysis. To analyze the speech content (BARDIN) produced by the social movement the software IRAMUTEQ has been used, allowing the investigation through the tweet corpus that mentioned the northern region, your states, and capitals. Five types of analysis were carried out (lexicographical, factorial correspondence, hierarchical descending classification, similarity, and word cloud). The network analysis (RECUERO) was carried out by graph analytics generated by VOSviewer, seeking to list the main stakeholders mentioned on #adiaENEM national movement. After those analyses a comparative study was executed (FACHIN) between the two movement moments in May 2020 and January 2021. It was concluded then, that the two tides of the movement differ on argumentation and network structure, as the central point of 2020 tide was the social and structure inequalities between the applicants, and in 2021 the central point was the coronavirus pandemic, and the health risk with the exam application.