Conhecendo trajetórias e percursos de(s)viados: sobre os deslocamentos territoriais e subjetivos contemporâneos

Abstract

This research focuses on the processes of territorial displacement experienced by gays and lesbians cisgender people who migrated from the countryside to Maceió, Alagoas’ capital. In addition to the issues inherent to territorial displacements, we seek to apprehend the subjective displacements that are produced in this process, taking into account the experience and expression of the subject's sexuality and the territorial dynamics that organize the interior and the capital, which produce different modes of subjectivation. To this end, our general objective is to know and analyze the trajectories of gays, lesbians and bisexuals who move from the countryside to the capital; while the specific objectives consist of knowing and discussing the elements that qualify the experience in the countryside and in the large urban center, detail the current relationship of the subject with the new space and with the place of origin, discuss how their networks of affection are constituted in the new place and, finally, get to know their perceptions about the spaces they occupy in the city. Supported by bell hooks, I used conversations with the participants to share experiences and produce the necessary data, having the recording and transcription of these moments as a form of registration. With inspirations based on the queer and feminist theoretical-methodological referential, I sought to analyze the data produced from a Narrative Analysis, which problematizes the experiences and offers us another way of perceiving them, believing that the reports narrated by the participants provide us with tools with which it may be possible to do, think and produce in other ways. In this sense, considering that the research starts from the researcher's personal experiences, it is important to mention that my memories and affections also emerge as methodological tools in the research, sharpening the meanings produced here. We observed the insufficiency in analyzing the territorial processes from a binary and static perspective, since the countryside and capital are shown as complementary, as poles that constitute each other, also understanding that the territories are in constant transformation. We verified that the urban center is not necessarily constituted as a host place to differences and sexual diversity. We noticed that territorial displacements also produce subjective displacements: ruptures and resignifications that transform the subject, especially in the experience of LGBTQIA+ people, who find greater freedom in the big city to experience their sexualities, far from the networks of interknowledge present in the place of origin.