Abstract:
This article, a result of the ethnography carried out with young people living with HIV / AIDS in the state of Rio de Janeiro, addresses the pedagogical investment in the positivation of the “seropositive experience”. Based on analysis of a “meeting”, according to the ethnography of a “network” in which they are set, I reflect on the nexuses produced between mutual help, self-care practices, emotions and identity construction. Centrality is given to the production of experience narratives and grammars of suffering.
Key words:
young people with HIV/AIDS; pedagogy of “seropositivity”; politicization of narratives; “suffering”; agency