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As fireflies in the darkness: stories about adolescents in the shelter care

Abstract

The article presents and analyses life stories produced from an experience with adolescents in an institution in Southern Brazil. The research sought to understand how these young people living in out-of-home care attribute meanings to their experiences, and which ways of subjectivation are implicated in these blokes marked by infamy. The work is articulated to the sphere of Special Social Protection and makes use of some keys of reading of Michel Foucault to think about the experiences lived by these adolescents, as well as the relations that cross great part of the Brazilian shelter cares. We will do this analytical exercise with the use of governmentality and subjectivation. To compose the life stories inspired by the meetings developed with the two participants of the research, we used the method of cartography, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. From this experience, we problematize the effects of the shelter care process and are challenged by the other possibilities of resistance and the production of subjectivities in adolescence.

Keywords:
shelter care; adolescence; life stories; transition

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