Encounters was the name of a Seminar that took place at The University of Manchester in July, 2013. Part of my research about singleness in Salvador was presented, what was so greatful because I could go back to this University where I spent some months as a visitor student in 2011 to work on my thesis.
Participates of the Session: Intimate Encounters
Abstract:
The “singleness” in Salvador:
unveiling practices and meanings among middle-class adults in Salvador
This PhD research sought to understand the phenomenon of “singleness” in contemporary, specifically in Salvador, Brazil, through experiences and constructions of meanings about the condition of being adult middle class single men and women living alone. The study was based on interdisciplinary discussions about the changes in Personal Life, in gender relations, on relationships and in lifestyles in urban contexts that were useful to think about the new meanings and practices among singleness. The research used feminist epistemology and gender as the main category chosen to analyze data; it adopted mixed methods with qualitative and quantitative devices: focus groups were realized with four women and three men as participants; structured questionnaire were responded by 76 people; field observations were taken place in leisure spaces in the city; bibliography interviews guided by the life grid and diaries were conducted with a subsample of six participants. Their ages varied between 30 to 60 years old, all of them were graduated, living in middle and high class neighborhood in Salvador, and classified as belonging to A/B social class. The construction of data and the dialogue with the literature allowed mainly to reconstruct the concept of singleness according to its dimensions of civil state, lifestyle and loneliness, having freedom as the main dimension, at the same time as the element that connects all the dimensions and the most important meaning of singleness. How men and women constructed their practices among these dimensions of singleness as part of their personal life, will be presented here.
To know more about the Seminar, access the link:
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/events/2012-13/encounters/index.html
Special thanks to Maiane, Keise, Felipe and all psychologist students at Ruy Barbosa Faculty, that are and were part of the Experience Program "Studying about single people´s lifestyle in Salvador" that helped me with the research!
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