"Demands, feelings and understandings in the judicial mediation in family conflicts".
Law and Anthropology; Mediation; Judicial Mediation; Families.
This work comes from field research developed in a Judiciary Center for Conflict Resolution and Citizenship (CEJUSC) in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. Through ethnographically oriented research, I sought to understand how the outcomes of judicial mediations of family conflicts make sense from the individuals' point of view about what is correct, adequate, or fair in judicial mediations in family conflicts, through the analytical orientation of three categories: demands, feelings and understandings. To do so, I resorted to empirical research methods in the fieldwork, mainly observation. As a result, aspects of the production of understandings in this context were perceived and analyzed, as well as their implications for the quality of the outcomes achieved, through which it was also possible to understand how the practices of judicial mediation contribute to the (non) resolution of these conflicts.