“In the name of God? pedagogies of conservative young people in 21st century Brazil”
Youths. Conservatism. Speech. YouTube.
This ongoing research entitled “In the name of God? pedagogies of conservative young people in 21st century Brazil” comes from a collective process of reading, discussion and guidance developed in the Youth, Cultures and Training Research Group (GPEJuv) linked to the Postgraduate Program in Education (PPGE / CEDU / UFAL). The general objective of the research is to understand the processes of strengthening conservative ideology as well asits advances in youth political and training spaces in the 21st century, with a focus on virtual spaces in addition to social networks and their entertainment platforms. To this end, the chosen cyber field was the largest global video sharing network on YouTube, a network full of diverse content broadcast on numerous channels with a personal or corporate character. Through these channels, we find innumerable young individuals with political and educational proposals in the defense of a conservative philosophy in the midst of contemporaneity, and these, in turn, find on YouTube a potent way of spreading this ideal by doing this through the organization of audiovisual material, online courses, conjuncture analysis, lives and opinion videos, with this device having a possibility of quick and easy access to the content generated by these young people. For the process of understanding and analyzing the hypotheses and scenarios highlighted, we established a theoretical dialogue with authors who talk about the youth categories (Bourdieu, 1983; Groppo, 2004; Kustrín, 2007; Pais, 1990) conservatism (Burke, 2014; Kirk, 1953; Scruton, 2020; Smith, 2003) being this reference framework to broaden understandings about both categories. In order to help the understanding of the discourses and the meanings produced by these young people, I approach the field of Discourse Analysis (AD) studies and the methodological artifact produced by Michel Pêcheux (2008) and Eni Puccinelli Orlandi (2005) with whom it is perceived an interpretative capacity of said and unspoken statements and speeches in the media content in question. Therefore, this research is configured as a qualitative and analytical work of certain contemporary dynamics of which the young men are protagonists in this century and that for the understanding of the educational processes nowadays, to orbit and study about these universes is beyond an organic activity of necessary research is also a political and pedagogical element that must be seen and analyzed from a critical and social perspective.