Os bastidores da sociedade civil : oportunidades políticas e estruturas de mobilização na construção de redes de defesa dos direitos humanos

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Antonio Cesar Machado da
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6247
• topic: Movimentos sociais; Oportunidades políticas; Ciclos de confronto; Social movements; Political opportunities; Contention cycles; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

This thesis aims to explain the operating logic and transformations over the network of human rights organizations in the Espírito Santo (Brazil) over the past decades. Recalling that the established arrangements tend to shift along the conflicts which imply changes in the structure of confrontation. In this process we try to show how political opportunities and mobilization strategies influence the success of the actions, for example, in capturing resources, as money and influence. Likewise the dynamic of mobilization tends to influence the framework of the reality of militants. In other words the content of the confrontation is not given a priori varies according the connections established by the entities and the contingencies surrounding the clash. Among our findings we highlight the existence of four cycles of confrontation, being the first in the early 80´s when occurs for the first time civil mobilizations in Grande Vitória during the end of the military regime, marked by the emergence of numerous organizations dedicated to ensuring the most basic rights to populations of the periphery, for this reason the human rights are framed as social justice, much due to the support of the Catholic Church, unions and student movement; soon after beginning the clashes against organized crime infiltrated in the State to be a malpractice environment and widespread corruption in the Espírito Santo. There is this time when the movement act to the defense of administrative probity and combat the impunity, approaching law enforcement officers, in order to legitimize their actions, leaving the streets towards the courts. As such conflicts lose strength the movement assumes new framework dedicated to the respect of the Criminal Law and the fight against torture and the bad conditions in capixaba prisons. The last confrontation cycle refers to the approval and implementation of the Programa Estadual de Direitos Humanos (PEDH) and the Programa Estadual de Educação en Direitos Humanos (PeEDH), seen by the movement as potential ways to overcome the stigmas related to the topic. In the end, both the political opportunities that have arisen over the conflict, as the available resources influence the entities to adopt strategies such as specialization and action networks in order to get success in their actions.