Para não serem esquecidas: sentidos produzidos sobre a família em contexto de orfandade por feminicídio no Amazonas

Abstract

What meanings are produced about the family in contexts of femicide, and how are its rearrangements organized? This dissertation sought to understand the meanings produced about the family in the context of orphanhood due to femicide in the state of Amazonas, through their trajectories, the meanings produced by the children, and the orphanhoods in this context from reproductive justice and a human rights perspective. We started from the premise that femicide manifests as a violation of human rights and reproductive injustice, referring to death for gender-based reasons that involves historical, political, and cultural dimensions, intersectional markers, and state agency in the face of absences and reorganizing families. Therefore, we are talking about a context that is aggravated by a femicide death every two hours in Latin America and with gaps regarding the living conditions and ways of life of the families of these women. Considering that the notion of health in the field of Public Health is socially and historically constructed, that it relates to living conditions and personal and collective experiences, and that sexist violence is present in everyday life, affecting both women and their children, the research was conceived within intersectional feminist dialogues, positioned alongside reproductive justice as a human right to care for children safely. Thus, our methodological choice was based on the perspective of social constructionism, "research carried out in everyday life," whose starting point is the Orphans of Femicide Project (DPE-AM), where three accompanied interlocutors are part of a family affected by femicide in 2021: two adults and one teenager. During the process, the "field" introduced us to a woman who was orphaned by femicide in childhood through the "Chegadas e Partidas" (Arrivals and Departures) Exhibition (UEA), Tabatinga (AM) edition. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using a script with triggering questions, and the information produced was analyzed using Dialogical Maps. As main results, we identified that the meanings about family in the context of femicide are produced as everyday practices, state agency, and as a people/territory through bonds of belonging and memory. From the encounters with the interlocutors, it was possible to identify that a family that reorganizes in the context of femicide is a version that combines the unexpected, the uninterrupted, the repetitive, and the transformative, along with the governmental arrangements negotiated in daily life with state agencies; that the family is a people/territory marked as a living memory of the violence and the voices that demand reparation as a human right. It is through the right not to be forgotten that this research overflows into the "Vozes e Memórias" (Voices and Memories) Project (UEA) as care for those orphaned by femicide