“Até zerar” ou “Até morrer”: Etnografando memórias e o trabalho de egressas (os) do sistema prisional sob a luz dos Direitos Humanos na Secretaria de Administração Penitenciária (João Pessoa-PB)

Abstract

The research aims to carry out an ethnography at the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat of the State of Paraíba - SEAP - with men and women involved in crime and prison. Ethnography also immersed itself in memories based on the lived experience of research subjects, memories of a past that is present in discursive practices. Furthermore, through participant observation, in direct contact with the research subjects, from the kitchen to the corridors in the sexual division of labor in this department, ethnography focuses on the interactions and social dynamics of the research subjects in a work relationship under the influence of of a pity. This work in Human Rights is built on the dialogue of knowledge, in particular, with Sociology and Anthropology, among other sources of knowledge given to the interdisciplinarity of Human Rights. Here, in “bottom-up” research (Barth, 1972), I bring life stories and perceptions of people trapped by crime, thrown into prison and on the margins of work under the weight of a sentence.