Banca de DEFESA: DANUBIA ZANOTELLI SOARES

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DANUBIA ZANOTELLI SOARES
DATE: 18/08/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Lived Space, Body-Territory, Femicide, Re-signification, Gender Violence.

PAGES: 759
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

This study examines the spatial and territorial dynamics of femicides in Rondonia. The aim is
to analyze how women who have survived lethal violence understand and express, through
their bodies and life territories, the spatial and territorial dynamics of the violence they have
suffered as women, including their affective, family, and institutional relationships, based on
a critical and decolonial approach. Femicides are understood from this decolonial perspective,
considering the female body-territory context. From this viewpoint, it is identified how
women who are victims of suicide attempts, femicide attempts, and mothers of direct victims
comprehend and narrate the violence experienced in their bodies and life spaces, analyzing
the meanings they attribute to their experiences. In this line of investigation, the discourses of
men imprisoned for femicide and penitentiary agents are interpreted to understand the
symbolic, affective, and territorial patterns associated with the crime. The goal is to establish
relationships between women's narratives and institutional discourses about violence, aiming
to build public policy proposals sensitive to lived experiences, based on listening and
analyzing emerging categories. At this point, the thesis deepens the analysis of affective
relationships that often mask the violence preceding femicide, composing the "continuum" of
violence that precedes and culminates in the crime. Thus, it correlates the role of Brazilian
laws that seek to protect women and ensure human rights, highlighting how the absence of the
State perpetuates gender-based violence, leaving women vulnerable in the face of inadequate
security. By conducting interviews with surviving victims, subjective perceptions are revealed
that help build a detailed narrative about the characteristics and motivations of these crimes.
The methodology adopted integrates phenomenology, inspired by Edith Stein's empathic
studies. This qualitative research gathers primary data through interviews, questionnaires, oral
histories, and the creation of mental maps, as well as secondary data from documentary and
bibliographic research. The use of collective subject discourse and participatory observation
allowed capturing nuances of individual and collective experiences. The analysis of content,
discourse, and body-territory reveals that femicide results from a violent patriarchal model
that is the common outcome of gender violence in a society still marked by the “cursed
legacy” of colonialism. The investigation shows that Brazilian legislation remains unable to
contain the practice of this crime due to structural problems and lack of resources. The study
also reveals the resilience of female body-territories, which, even as targets of violence,
persist as spaces of resistance. By exploring the geography of femicide, this thesis contributes
to resignifying women's lived space and supports the construction of geographic knowledge
that can underpin concrete actions of protection and prevention, proposing that territorial and
social justice walk together to reverse the contemporary landscape of gender violence.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - JOSELI MARIA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - KLONDY LUCIA OLIVEIRA AGRA
Presidente - 6396896 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SILVA NASCIMENTO SILVA
Interna - 2666681 - MARIA MADALENA DE AGUIAR CAVALCANTE
Interna - 3272187 - RAIANE FLORENTINO
Externa à Instituição - SUZANNA DOURADO DA SILVA