A (In)visibilidade dos trabalhadores de limpeza e conservação da Universidade Federal de Alagoas: imagens reveladas e histórias reinventadas

Abstract

This dissertation started from the hypothesis that the outsourced workers of cleaning and conservation, developing their professional activities in a public university in the Northeast of Brazil, are invisible as subjects practitioners within the university context. In this sense, the research aims to understand how the academic routine, forged by scientific and cultural practices in their different environments, subjectively affect these subordinate workers. Subjective effects that can reveal, by the traces, the written plot in their memory in which enroll their history of life. From a methodological point of view, we chose initially to address the workers in their daily lives from a casual conversation; and then establish a dialogue having as a theme the images of photographs taken by them, within the said educational institution, at our request. That is, an opening to the revelation - the space of "différance" (Derrida, 2002). The memories, forged in these images could bring us evidence about the experiences (LARROSA, 2002) of these subjects practitioners who (re)invent themselves in their narratives. Moreover, reveal, in the plurality of their knowledge, "the tricks of interests and different desires" (Certeau, 2009), in search, of course, of a social justice and, above all, a "cognitive justice" (SANTOS, 2004). We joined the aforementioned authors to articulate concepts and theoretical foundations that can sustain our discussions and, above all, our demands to want to look at the world from its inside out.