“É preciso ocupar mentes e corações”: performance como ação política juvenil através do AgitProp e da Mística no Levante Popular da Juventude/PB.

Abstract

In social movements, there are propagation techniques and political engagement that involve a very broad arsenal attached to the body of a militant, which serve as identification and representation with their causes and movements, a body-flag relationship. This work addresses performance as a tool of political struggle in youth militancy, based on the use of Agitação e Propaganda (AgitProp) and Mystique, two techniques used in left-wing social movements. This work is crossed by the Covid-19 pandemic, in this context, the social movements that historically use the street as a stage for claiming, have adapted their strategies to expand their activities in cyberspace, through social networks, which is constituted in contemporary times as a fundamental means in the concreteness of the great mobilizations of the Brazilian youth. This research aims to understand the use of AgitProp and Mystique in politically engaged youth, finding in artistic and communication tools a way to research the body performance of militant youth. It mobilizes elements to think about the meanings produced in militant performances, such as the visibility of subaltern youth identities and the role of digital technologies in the production and execution of political action. It is used as a research clipping, the performance of the Levante Popular da Juventude movement, focusing on the city of Campina Grande/PB. In the methodological path, the theoretical discussion addresses the implications of a militant researcher (GOSS E PRUDÊNCIO, 2004) in participant observation (INGOLD, 2016; CLIFFORD, 2002; PACHECO DE OLIVEIRA, 2013; GEERTZ, 2001; STRATHERN, 2014, LAVE, 2015 ; ABU-LUGHOD, 2018), mobilizing the ideas of coloniality (GONZALES, 1980; QUIJANO, 2005; AGUIAR, 2021) “learning how/in practice” (LAVE, 2015) and “knowing from within” (INGOLD, 2011) . The analyzes are produced from the lyrics of songs from the popular songbook, photographic records of the movement and the virtual act #AdiaEnem. The pedagogical, cultural and educommunicative character of the youth militant performance is evident.