Movimentos sociais, estado e suas dinâmicas de interação: um balanço de duas décadas do Movimento de Direitos Humanos do Espírito Santo”

Abstract

This research starts from a dense review of the specialized literature of social movements in order to isolate the relevant variables to formalize an analytical strategy capable of understanding in more general terms how the transformations in the frames of collective action (BENFORD, SNOW, 2000) impact on the dynamics of action and organizational aspects of the Human Rights Movement of Espírito Santo (MDH-ES). It is understood that this is a case inscribed within the new empirical reality of institutionalizing activism, observed in contemporary Brazilian social movements. This framing analysis will take place from the reconstruction of the engaged actors' perceptions and narratives about the socio-historical context of collective mobilization, seeking to propose relations between the transformations in the interpretative frameworks and the transformation process in the interactive and organizational dynamics of the activism network. This relation will be studied in two different campaigns undertaken by the network engaged in the defense of human rights in the state of Espírito Santo, specifically, the periods known as Campaign Against Impunity and Violence (1993-2002) and Campaign Against Violations in the Prison System (2004- 2010). This effort will be made through the analysis of dozens of documents produced during the proposed time frame, by civil society actors, the State and media, in addition to interviews with activists, aiming to reconstruct the historical processes of the campaigns. The conceptual delimitation of the interaction and organizational dynamics studied will occur mainly from the mobilization of analytical tools present in the following formulations: confrontation repertoire (TILLY, 2008); organizational repertoire (CLEMENS, 2010); interaction repertoire (ABERS; SERAFIM; TATAGIBA, 2014). This effort will be made in order to quantify the action, interaction and organizational repertoires mobilized by the human rights movement according to their levels of institutionalization and conflict with the public authorities, at different periods and to investigate how these dynamics are transformed over time, relating such changes to the variations in the observed collective action frames