"A carrocinha pegou...": um estudo das representações sociais da captura e sacrifício de cães de rua no Recife-PE

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento Júnior, João Alves do
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/9096
• topic: Social representations; Dog catcher; Street dog; Representações sociais; Zoonoses; Cão - Aspectos sociais; Carrocinha; Psicologia; 159.9

Historically the political control of zoonoses and animal populations to urban centers include in their practices to capture and sacrifice of animals wandering or proven carriers of diseases transmissible to humans. The vehicle used in these activities is known as "Dog catcher", and attracts to itself all the unpopularity that causes these health measures in a large population. This rejection expressed by the militancy of the Animal Protective Entities, has strained over time, taken in the media and acquired significant proportions occupying the agendas of legislative and judicial powers. Opposite the militancy are the health authorities, and between the public and health workers involved in the activity. This is the scenery of an ethical conflict, moral and legal, with serious implications for public health. Based on the Theory of Social Representations, systematized by Moscovici, this study aimed to identify the Social Representations (RS) about the “Dog Catcher” and "street dog" constructed by three collective subjects of this dilemma in Recife: the population, the protector of militancy Animals and Animal Control Officers (OCA) of the Center for Environmental Monitoring (CVA), the body responsible for the control of zoonoses in Recife. It was intended to also identify the elements involved in the process of objectification and anchoring these RS. Three items make up this thesis: the first is dedicated to identifying those RS, built by the city population, stratified by gender and educational level, the second article proposes to study the RS on the objects in question expressed the websites Animal Protective Entities operating in Recife, and the third studied the OCA on the RS “street dog” and its work, the “Dog Catcher”. In the three articles the informations were analyzed using the method of content analysis, described by Bardin. While the population, regardless of gender and education, is the “street dog”, despite the compassion they generate, as a threat to public health, RS shared by the OCA, the texts of these entities represent protective animals as beings with the same rights holders life, even in the streets, and primarily as victims of health authorities who persecute them. The RS on the “street dogs” are different elements that anchor the RS “Dog Catcher”: the population understands as a tool to protect health, while rejecting its methods and the sacrifice of animals, the OCA, to represent as an effective measure, while protecting human health, especially to minimize the suffering of the animals themselves, but the RS of animal protection organizations about the “Dog catcher” is an instrument of unfair, unacceptable and torture against animals. In the midst of this conflict, the OCA build an RS of themselves as a category stigmatized, ostracized by the community they serve. Considering the character-inducing behaviors and judgments inherent in the RS, and its mutable, knowledge of these representations, and the elements that aim and anchor, are an important subsidy for health authorities, who need to manage these conflicts and interests.