Abstract

SONODA, Katerine da Cruz Leal; ASSIS, Simone Gonçalves de  and  SCHENKER, Miriam. Coordinating strategies of urban violence by social activists from Rio de Janeiro. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.3, pp. 749-767. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N3P749.

The article investigates the subjects' participation in social activism as a factor in coping and/or redefinition of urban violence. The specific objectives were to identify the experience of urban violence expressed by respondents, study the main ways of coping, and reflect on possible relationships between the experiences of violence on health. Fourteen interviews with members of Rio de Janeiro's institutions created to help people cope with urban violence were conducted. Violence mingles with and influences activists' life storys, in which daily life and daily activities have been modified by experiences of violence. Most respondents said they had the physical and mental health changed/damaged. Identified the use of individual and collective strategies to combat violence. The internal logic of the group that the attitude of dealing with violence is regarded as a form of protection, leading to the construction of coping strategies and/or reduction of urban violence

Keywords : Urban violence; Activism; Health.

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