Banca de DEFESA: Andressa Vieira Palmeira

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Andressa Vieira Palmeira
DATE: 24/04/2023
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Sala de defesas do PPGSOL
TITLE:

Academic impenetrability and the dynamics of recognition among women cientists: can two bodies occupy the same space at the same time?

KEY WORDS:

Dynamics of Recognition; Graduate Course; Gender and Race; Outsider Within; Intersectionality.

PAGES: 125
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUBÁREA: Sociologia do Conhecimento
SUMMARY:

This master thesis investigated the dynamics of recognition that exist among graduate students in sociology, specifically in programs that are considered of excellence. The academic field was historically built in a masculine and whitened foundation, which makes it harder for women and black people to insert themselves and rise in this career. Despite being the majority in undergraduate courses, women are still less present in graduate courses, as well as at the top of the academic career. Considering the different intersections of categories and their effects on experiences, this research sought to evaluate the trajectories in the struggle for recognition, articulated with discussions regarding gender and race in the academy. The methodological procedures combined a first overview of the selected graduate programs, an online questionnaire with students from these programs, as well as individual and in-depth interviews with six women chosen from the last group. The thesis is divided into three chapters and its structure is based on the three phases of recognition for Axel Honneth, including critical considerations about his work, notably taking into account Nancy Fraser's perspective on redistribution. The first chapter presents the references that underlie the investigation, as well as the methodology. The second chapter pays attention to the recognition phases named love and respect, integrating the data collected in the questionnaire and in the interviews. Finally, the third chapter follows the disposition of the second one, but deepens the debate focusing on the third and most prominent phase of recognition for this work: social esteem. I found that all the women, with their trajectories intersectionally characterized, experienced the academy in different ways, but with several relevant overlaps in their narratives. They pointed out the difficulties of insertion and ascension in the academic field, stressed by racial and gender discrimination. They understand that the academy was not designed for them to occupy it and, considering the characteristics of their condition as effective occupants of a space with no saying in the creation of their codes, I find it relevant to interpret their status as outsiders within, based on the concept designed by Patricia Hill Collins. This feeling of not belonging culminates in non-recognition, which is not compensated for in the measures that have been adopted for the inclusion of women and black people in these spaces, although they are very important. I also noticed the importance of female reference figures for encouraging the continuity of studies, and for building a reality that transforms the logic of knowledge production.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1804106 - STEFAN FORNOS KLEIN
Interno - 2273018 - EDUARDO DIMITROV
Externa ao Programa - 1065451 - LAYLA DANIELE PEDREIRA DE CARVALHO
Externa à Instituição - MARIANA TOLEDO FERREIRA - IFG