Dos afetos às práticas políticas: o levante popular da juventude em Campina Grande/CG.

Abstract

The Levante Popular da Juventude (LPJ) is a political group that has been standing out in the troubled national political scene since 2013, acting as a leftist social movement linked to the popular field and articulated in the Consulta Popular (CP). They have in their framework political guidelines of horizontal demands: Against machismo, racism and homophobia. They present characteristics of political sociabilities that value diverse subjectivities and what they call the "politics of affection". These characteristics can be found in the excessive esteem for affection, mysticism and agitation and propaganda within this group. Thus, this work aims to understand the Levante Popular da Juventude not only as a social movement or youth of a party, but to understand what aspects expensive to the values of this group may indicate new political sociabilities or new social phenomena. To do so, we used the qualitative methodology with field work, consisting of non-participant observation and the use of semi-structured interviews, during 2016/2017. The main hypothesis raised here is that the characteristics present in the Levante Popular da Juventude, as appreciation of affection and mystic, indicate new social phenomena observable through their political practices and sociabilities. We can highlight as results of this research that the Levante Popular da Juventude, despite not being part of a new political field, presents an adaptation of political practices to the dimension of affection, categories such as project and popular power are understood from their mystical character. The mystique is resignified bringing new elements to think youth, as the interest in holistic issues. Affection functions as ethos for this political group, being revolutionary because lived in the present and expressed through everyday sociabilities. This characteristic makes the members of the LPJ cultivate a political sociability that values the present, to the detriment of a rational political project of the future.