Socio-Education and the Right to Fabulation: The Social Senses of Rap

• Main Authors: Patrícia da Silva Santos, Nelissa Peralta
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2021-05-01
• Series: Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social
• Subjects: socioeducação, direito à fabulação, desigualdade social, rap, imaginário
• Online Access: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/34393

This paper presents an analysis of the experiences of an outreach project developed with adolescents sentenced by the state with deprivation of liberty. The project carried out pedagogical workshops using rap to provide support to correctional measures. Mobilizing strategies from the sociology of literature, we analyzed lyrics produced by adolescents during these workshops to understand their social content. Results highlight the relationship between social inequality and the restriction of imaginary, the nexus between total institutions and the mutilation of the self, the contribution of fabulation through rap to the reestablishment of the symbolic space necessary to restore the right to the imaginary.