Transversality in collective action: network experience as a possibility for critique and public voice doi: 10.5007/2175-7984.2010v9n17p325

Abstract

This article presents some of the conclusions emerging from my master’s thesis, in which I seek to understand how Rio de Janeiro shantytown inhabitants have built their struggle against  police violence. For these purposes, I use data collected while accompanying the actions of the social movement referred to  as Community and Movement Network Against Violence (Rede  de Comunidades e Movimentos contra a Violência). My analysis attempts to reveal the processes through which certain demands are brought to the public eye and subaltern social  segments gain access to the public space. The axis that will enable us to describe and interpret the countless actions and articulations carried out by different groups in their fight against police violence in the shantytowns of this city and which enables us to interpret such processes of gaining public access and attention can be found in the format that such activities have taken on, that is, the network.