THE POLITICAL EXERCISE OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MST LEADERS IN ALAGOAS IN HEALTH PRODUCTION
Political Friendship. Careful. MST.
The present study is a qualitative descriptive research, based on participant research, and its general objective is to understand the exercise of friendship as a political device and care among state leaders of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) of Alagoas. Based on the daily experiences of leaders, the aim is also to understand the relationship of political friendship as a device for strengthening collective actions, as well as to identify how friendship is expressed as a political device in the daily lives of leaders. The main studies that theoretically support the notion of friendship in this work are based on the contributions of Hannah Arendt, Francisco Ortega, and Michel Foucault, although they are not restricted to the mentioned authors. It is understood that political friendship can be conceived as a way of experimenting with new ways of life and producing ruptures with dominant logics. Participant observation techniques, semi-structured interviews, field diary and the group device for production and analysis of the material will be used, with the help of content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin. The survey sample will be 10 people, the number may vary according to the saturation of information produced in the field. MST leaders who live or work directly in settlements, camps or movement brigades in the state of Alagoas will participate in the study. These can be male and female over 18 years old, who agree to participate in the research and who can tell us about experiences of political friendship lived in relation to their paths of political struggle within the territories. Experimenting with friendship in its political dimension leads us to broaden the debate between the public and the common, and will contribute to the affirmation and empowerment of the latter, as we shift the centrality of governance power from the bodies of State institutions to technologies of community self-management as a way to meet alterities and their multiple voices. As a place of experience and emergence of the contradictions of reality, the friendship relationships experienced daily between state leaders of the MST can compose an intersubjective plane endowed with complexity, giving rise to a propitious field of investigation.