Interações comunicativas de mulheres em prisão domiciliar: entre sociabilidades, aprisionamentos e resistências

Abstract

This research presents the theme "Communicative interactions and women under house arrest: Between sociabilities, imprisonments and resistances". These women, in their great majority, present situations of social vulnerability, have committed crime, have gone through the closed prison system and now face the challenge of returning to "social life." But we can only understand this challenge from the communicative interactions established with the women themselves. For this reason, this research has in its centrality the establishment of communication processes with five women who are serving a sentence under house arrest in Belém do Pará, so that we can understand not only their life histories but also the sociability constructed in spaces of sociability. In this sense, the research problem presents the following question: How are the communicative interactions of women under house arrest in the spaces of sociability in which they are circulated constructed? Thus, it is based on the hypothesis that women in house arrest establish in the spaces of sociability in which there are communicative interactions of constant tensions, experienced between situations of exclusion / stigma and situations of resistance. It is a constant game to survive in an unequal and unjust society. Thus, the theoretical framework that allowed us to reflect on communication and sociability was Freire (1983), Mead (1973), Simmel. In relation to the issue of gender and prison, we have recourse to Davis (2016) and Artur (2011), and to discuss the arrests we anchor in Goffman (2004), Foucault (2011) and Thompson (2002). As for the methodological approach, the communicative-dialogic method used in conversation with the five women accused of having committed a crime was adopted, as well as a formal interview with the judge responsible for the "Begin Again" project, to which they are linked by of work. As result of the research we observe that the established communicative relations are of constant tensions, sometimes the dialogue and the understanding are limited by the stigmas of prey status, or they break with this relation of power that tries to place them in a place of exclusion.