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Social Movement; Periphery; Militancy; COVID-19
This dissertation aims to study the Movimento Social Fome, an organization that operates on
the outskirts of the city of Sobral/CE since 2013. In its almost ten years of creation, the
collective of young residents has articulated its actions from the emphasis on in the “various
famines existing in peripheral neighborhoods”, emphasizing here that they understand as a
lack of public policies, culture and education. To carry out this research, interviews, informal
conversations, analysis of social networks and the podcast created by the group were used, as
well as participant observation carried out in the years 2021 and 2022. In addition to
reflecting on the engagement of the Hunger militants, I describe their main interventions and
some of the relationships they maintain with other actors in the territory, the municipality and
the State. When dealing with daily life and the activities carried out, I defend the trajectories
of its members as an important aspect to think about motivation and permanence in social
militancy, shedding light on the nuances that the Movement has taken on in the last three
years. In this sense, I address the actions carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic, which
allows us to reflect on how a specific axis of themes such as youth, childhood, peripheries,
social militancy, public policies, leisure, community communication and non-formal
education are articulated. between my interlocutors.