“Students are still hungry!”: Daring, occupation and resistance of high school students in Brazil

Abstract

The movement of occupation of schools by the São Paulo state students started in 2015 promoted the opening of a new field of possibilities in the Brazilian political experience. From the patterns of claim on the institutional policy of formal education, including the construction of spaces of autonomy and freedom in schools with the occupations, the movement of students allowed to note the emergence of different forms of everyday political relations involving political participation and the construction of new social practices. By analyzing this movement we seek to interpret their influence and possibilities for new forms of consciousness and political action arising from the reorganization or emancipation movements historically organized around practices and policies acclimated methodologies in unionism, political parties and organized social movements.