Abstract

COSTA, Samira Lima da  and  SILVA, Carlos Roberto Castro e. Affection, memory, community struggles, social participation and community senses. Pesqui. prát. psicossociais [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.2, pp. 283-291. ISSN 1809-8908.

The text has as its main objective to promote a discussion on the production of the notions of community based on the affections, on the collective memory, and on the community struggle, considering different forms of social participation and its potentiating elements. It uses, as illustration for the discussion, two different experiences (one group of members of an NGO and a group of artisanal fishers). The reflection is conducted around the community potencies generated, evidenced, and strengthened by the group processes of production of notions of community. The experiences of affections, the individual and collective memories, the struggles, the intrigues and disagreements, the cohesions and coercions, the daily lives and the social participation support the production of collective movements - not without internal conflicts and confrontations. The perspective of the community is understood from the inevitable relation of strengths which act in a collectivity, producing tensions, negotiations, convergences, and divergences, lasting and temporary aggregations. The notions of community, therefore, are made up of the permeability and fluidity of the group, on one side, and of the cohesion and strength, on the other side, favoring the identification of common problems and the collective struggle for solutions.

Keywords : Notions of Community; Affection; Struggle; Memory; Social Participation.

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