Banca de DEFESA: BARBARA NOVAES MEDEIROS

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STUDENT : BARBARA NOVAES MEDEIROS
DATE: 09/08/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: PPGA
TITLE:

The faces of silence that echo over trans existences in the socio-organizational context

KEY WORDS:

Silence. Transphobia. Trans people. Discourse analysis. Foucault. 

PAGES: 311
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

The present work aims to analyze the faces of silence that echo over trans existences in the socio-organizational context and how they react in order to combat challenges, impasses and possible transphobias. In order to broaden the scope of the research and break it down into specific practices, specifically, the following specific objectives were outlined: 1) to analyze the discursive constructions of trans people in order to identify signs of silence and transphobia experienced in the social, hetero-cis-normative context, from the standards of gender, sexuality and corporeality; 2) to analyze the discursive constructions of trans people in order to identify signs of silence and transphobia experienced in the context of the institutions of the Family, School, Church and State; 3) to analyze organizational policies and practices that aim to normalize and organize worker behaviors, based on the statements of trans people, in order to identify signs of silence and transphobia; 4) to analyze the statements of trans people about diversity in view of the social responsibility of organizations, in order to identify signs of silence and transphobia; 5) to apprehend how trans people appropriate silence, (re)exist, resist and reinvigorate themselves in the socio-organizational context, in order to combat challenges, impasses and possible transphobic acts. It is assumed that silences and transphobias appear in faces that echo on trans people – cross-dressers, transsexuals and transgender people – with different effects in the hostile and not very inclusive socio-organizational context. However, it is intriguing to know that there is a lack of studies and researchers that focus on the subject. In the research carried out, no broad study was found that established a dialogue between the faces of silence and the transphobias experienced by trans people in the socio-organizational context, exploring issues such as the bundles of power that permeate the hegemonic organizational narratives, in order to understand how trans people react to these imposed challenges. Organizational Studies cannot silence this issue. Therefore, a critical queer and post-structuralist approach was chosen to undo the functional view that regulates behavior and conduct in organizations, in addition to producing truths about excluding perspectives. As the operationalization of the research, a qualitative approach was chosen with 23 in-depth semi-structured interviews, analyzed based on the assumptions of Foucault's discourse analysis, in dialogue with other queer and post-structuralist authors, such as Butler, Louro and Miskolci, among others who dialogue with these issues in the field of Organizational Studies. The participants were chosen according to the construction of the network of voluntary collaboration with the research, through the snowball approach. The research results indicate that there are signs of silences and transphobias experienced by trans people in the social, hetero-cis-normative context, under the influence of Family, School, Church and State institutions, which shape, through devices of power and knowledge, the standards of gender, sexuality and corporeality to be followed; and, in the organizational context, they act from organizational policies and practices that silence trans people at work by denying the difference and not valuing their existence. Thus, the practices of diversity in organizations do not always occur in a way that is embedded in social responsibility, due to the instrumentalization of its social nature. Considering the barriers that are imposed and that prevent the recognition of trans people in the socio-organizational context, silence represented for them the possibility to (re)exist, resist and reinvigorate themselves in this context in order to combat challenges. The passage from silence to voice is also an ally in this struggle for new socio-organizational agendas. In this way, this research contributed to practical, social, cultural, academic and methodological issues gaining new translations in contemporary times. New ways are opened to break the cycle of invisibility and silence around trans people. 

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