Os professores do ensino superior: entre a performatividade da lei e as narrativas autobiográficas

O presente texto é parte de um projecto de investigação conduzido pelo grupo ESBRINA da Universidade de Barcelona1 e tem por objetivo compreender as implicações da reestruturação económica, social, cultural, tecnológica e laboral da universidade espanhola na vida e na identidade profissional dos docentes e investigadores. As autoras analisam os efeitos performativos da lei na configuração da actividade docente através de um estudo que pretende estabelecer a relação entre a legislação universitária espanhola dos últimos 40 anos e as experiências de vários professores universitários de diferentes gerações. A metodologia qualitativa utilizada baseia-se na análise da legislação, incidindo sobre a definição de sujeito que dela emerge, e, ao mesmo tempo, procurando estabelecer uma relação com os discursos autobiográficos dos participantes no estudo. O objectivo é salientar as transformações que se operaram na vida universitária a partir das alterações legislativas e, ao mesmo tempo, saber que estratégias foram utilizadas pelos docentes perante essas mudanças. A interacção entre a análise performativa da legislação universitária e os relatos autobiográficos da experiência vivida permite aferir as adaptações e resistências, encontros e desencontros, entre o sujeito normativo e o sujeito biográfico.

As Narrativas Biográficas e as metodologias de investigação-acção sobre a memória e o esquecimento

The integration of Biographical Knowledge in research processes is a methodological proposal of critical empiricism that shifts the centre of production of knowledge to the research objects. We try to show haw Biographical Narratives can allow bypassing the locks and the deviations from real observation by the researcher and focus is work on actors in process. In the critique of the Eurocentric paradigm and is production of hegemonic scientific discourses by Bonaventura Sousa Santos (Santos, 2000) proposes the "south epistemologies" as a research process and the inclusion of knowledge of actors as the research field. In the article we will try to look at the process of production of biographical narratives using the tools of south epistemological proposal. We start reviewing the methodologies working on biographical objects. Then we present the preliminary studies and research we have been doing in communities in southern Mozambique in Djabula Community Centre. These results should be completed with other works on the ground, and now we opened as a collaborative process discussion on African Studies community. The project will be completed in the coming months, through the proposal of a "House of memories" to develop with the local population through articles, stories, sounds and dances that are chosen and will support the chosen narratives by the community. The projects created with local players, from their problems allow rapprochement and dialogue between the different knowledge.

As Narrativas Biográficas e as metodologias de investigação-acção sobre a memória e o esquecimento

The integration of Biographical Knowledge in research processes is a methodological proposal of critical empiricism that shifts the center of production of knowledge to the referred research objects. We try to show how Biographical Narratives can allow bypassing the locks and the deviations from real observation by the researcher, and focus his work on the actors in process. In the critique of the Eurocentric paradigm and its production of hegemonic scientific papers presentations and speaches, by Bonaventura Sousa Santos (Santos, 2000), proposes the "south epistemologies" as a research process and the inclusion of knowledge of actors as the research field. In the article, we will try to look at the production process of biographical narratives, using the tools of south epistemological proposal. We start with reviewing the methodologies, working on biographical objects, then we will present the preliminary studies and research that has been ongoing in several communities in southern Mozambique, in Djabula Community Centre. These results should be completed with other field works, as we open as a collaborative process discussion on African Studies community. We expect the project to be completed in the coming months, aiming towards the proposal of a "House of memories", in order to develop with the local population through articles, stories, sounds and dances that are selected and will support the chosen narratives by the community. The projects created with local players, from their problems will allow a rapprochement and dialogue between different kinds of knowledge."

As Narrativas Biográficas e as metodologias de investigação-acção sobre a memória e o esquecimento

The integration of Biographical Knowledge in research processes is a methodological proposal of critical empiricism that shifts the center of production of knowledge to the referred research objects. We try to show how Biographical Narratives can allow bypassing the locks and the deviations from real observation by the researcher, and focus his work on the actors in process. In the critique of the Eurocentric paradigm and its production of hegemonic scientific papers presentations and speaches, by Bonaventura Sousa Santos (Santos, 2000), proposes the "south epistemologies" as a research process and the inclusion of knowledge of actors as the research field. In the article, we will try to look at the production process of biographical narratives, using the tools of south epistemological proposal. We start with reviewing the methodologies, working on biographical objects, then we will present the preliminary studies and research that has been ongoing in several communities in southern Mozambique, in Djabula Community Centre. These results should be completed with other field works, as we open as a collaborative process discussion on African Studies community. We expect the project to be completed in the coming months, aiming towards the proposal of a "House of memories", in order to develop with the local population through articles, stories, sounds and dances that are selected and will support the chosen narratives by the community. The projects created with local players, from their problems will allow a rapprochement and dialogue between different kinds of knowledge."

Fé e narrativas de progresso : um pequeno contributo teórico

Por que razão a necessidade religiosa tem sido tão asperamente anti-progressista? Porque é que os pobres têm procurado tanto o “evangelismo/ /carismatismo”? Porque é que os antigos movimentos progressistas, incluindo alguns ramos da Acção Católica, se foram esvaziando, enquanto os Novos Movimentos Eclesiais se enchiam de gente, alguma dela trânsfuga do progressismo? Por que motivo os deserdados do Islão rejeitaram a sua “Teologia da Libertação”? Porque é que o extremismo islâmico recruta tanto nas classes médias e nas universidades? Como explicar a tendência para o culto religioso desinstitucionalizado, individual ou familiar?