SUBJECTIVITIES AND AFFECTIONS IN DOCUMENTARY-RESEARCH WITH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WHO WORK

Abstract

The objective of this article is to propose theoretical and methodological contributions, based on documentary research, in the process of subjectivation and dialogic sharing of affections between researchers-documentarians and subjects-characters, in the field of higher education, with university students who combine studies with work activities. Methodologically, this is a qualitative research, based on an experience report of a postdoctoral research, which had 27 participants and with the use of audiovisual language and the production of a documentary from a dialogic, transdisciplinary, democratic, collective, cooperative and collaborative perspective. Given the globalizing psychosocial and political-economic singularities that constitute the world of work and higher education today, which permeate the daily lives and dynamics of student workers, it was possible to highlight the transdisciplinarity, advantages and theoretical-methodological advances of documentary research, especially with regard to the recognition of the process of subjectivation and the affections of those involved and the ethical-political commitment inherent and inseparable from the documentary research method. It is concluded that this experience report has the innovative potential to deal with the current challenges in the academic context of scientific dissemination, since it enhances the voice of the participants, providing a place for speaking/listening and autonomy, in which the subject can exercise his/her role as a citizen in the different spaces in which he/she acts, beyond work and the university. We also emphasize the imminent power of audiovisual language, in the proposal of documentary research, to sensitize and educate different communities to demand improvements, encourage and implement public policies, based on the strength of the collective and cooperation.

Keywords: Transdisciplinarity; Audiovisual; Ethical-political.