“Todo desconstruidinho”: young leaders of the school collective occupation movement Ocupa Tudo RS

Abstract

The article presents the portraits of two leaders of a school collective occupation movement occurred in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), in 2016. The work is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews. Combining data on the group and the context of the movement with details of the individual trajectory of two leaders, the results show aspects less addressed in the growing literature on the Brazilian social movement of schools’ occupations, such as its internal fractures and mobilization and recognition of skills acquired in the context of religious participation. Analysis also describes learnings related to the activist activity and the significant participation of young women and feminists in this social movement, dialoguing with anthropological and sociological research on social movements.