CONFLICTS AND MEDIATIONS: ALTERITY IN THE CONTEXT OF STUDENT FEMINISM

Abstract

In this article, we reflect on the role of alterity in the construction of the activism of a student feminist collective inserted into a federal education institution. It is a participatory study, whose corpus of analysis consists of a field diary, documentary analysis and a conversation group with the participants. The study is in the field of Social Psychology, on the Theory of Social Representations and the Theory of Active Minorities, in dialogue with feminist theorists. We observed that the relationships of alterity form a key point in the creation and performance of the feminist collective participating in the school environment. We concluded that the performance of young women as an active minority played a central role for the collective to achieve its objectives and strengthen its identification with feminism.

ALTERITY; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: EDUCATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY