Empoderamento de afro-brasileiros no futebol: o Projeto Atleta Cidadão do Futuro como espaço de inclusão social.

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Lucas Vieira de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4724
• topic: Afro-Brasileiros no futebol; Empoderamento; Empowerment; Social inclusion and social exclusion; Afro-brazillians in soccer; The Story viewed from below; Inclusão e exclusão social; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

social inclusion of Afro-Brazilian people in poor social groups, participants of soccer schools designed to the formation of athletes in the state of Paraíba. The interest on this theme appeared because of our personal relation with the soccer but also from our academic formation (from the beginning and going on). Through that period, we made several readings and studies that aroused our interest for this theme. This embryonic trajectory disturbed us even more in a point of making us initiate an whole process of estrangement from the reason of the amount of Afro-Brazilian people practicing this sport. As soon, a first question emerged: which reasons take this part of the Brazilian population to persist and insist in soccer, even though, in a contradictory way, living in a context of discrimination, prejudice and racism? From these first incursions we feel touched to analyze how this sport, through the Projeto Atleta Cidadão do Futuro (PACF), contribute to the empowerment of poor and excluded Afro-Brazilian people from Campina Grande-PB, taking them to the social inclusion. As a basis theorist-conceptual, we selected the notions of empowerment and social inclusion, articulated to the Story Viewed From Below, because we understand that the investigated people, submerged in a brutal process of social exclusion and poverty, are, themselves, the only ones capable of telling the story they are part of. Therefore, we list their ways of thinking and acting in front of the activities they do as a way of overcoming the social and economic problems. Coming from a qualitative approach, this research consisted to its bibliographic, documental and on field dimensions. The instruments utilized to obtain the information were the sociodemographic questionary and the semi structured interview applied directly in the research field to the athletes in process of empowerment (those being formed by PACF) and also applied to the empowered ones (The ones already formed by PACF). For that, we started with documents, archives and the talks of teachers, collaborators and, mainly, the athletes, the core people of our research. As a complementary way we did observations, video recordings and pictures from the places and people, as their actions and behavior, helping us in the descriptions and analysis. The results we had through this investigation showed us that the soccer, through PACF, coming of taking off kids and young people from the streets, enabling them to become athletes/citizens, give them the creation of dreams and hope for a better life, making, after all, not only an space of empowerment but also, an space inside the social inclusion to them and their families.