Abstract

This seminar focuses on the discussion of the relationships between access to Social Policies and citizenship. The proposal is to consider the arrangements of access in light of the forms of organisation of Health Policies, in order to reflect on the relationship with citizenship through the articulation with labour. The point of this discussion is the analysis of the effects of the abyssal line (Santos, 2014), as they are constituted as circumstantialities of access. Thus, the centrality of access in the field of health Policies finds its conditions of possibility in the abyssal line game. Objectifying access as a central category for the formulation, implementation and evaluation of health policy, enables its possibility, that is, its circumstantiality. In the game between the sides of the abyssal line, access becomes an unavoidable surface, both in the sense of the visibility of the north and south, as the very need for transposition of the lines.

The problematic of access comes in the wake of political responses to a certain historical urgency, for it will mark a visibility field not of access in itself, but above all, the social organization model, in which the modes of regulation should incorporate health as a right to citizenship and the non-access to citizenship will be an element assessment of social organisation itself, i.e., of the abyssal line consequences.

The discussion will focus on one dimension of the relationship between access, policy and citizenship: the field of mental health. In this field in particular, the discussion about the right to work of people with mental illness took a considerable proportion in recent times due to the psychiatric reform processes taking place in several countries. In Brazil, the movement of solidarity economy was and is an ally to the psychiatric reform from the perspective of social inclusion through labour. However, the historical invisibility experienced by people with mental disorders reflects the difficulty of social emancipation of the groups that are developing labour activities. It is then crucial to reflect on how to overcome the abyssal line in this context towards social emancipation. The ecology of knowledge provides the theoretical and methodological elements to indicate the paths to be followed.

Bio notes

Isabela Lussi (CES/UFSCar/CAPES): Possui graduação em Terapia Ocupacional pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (1991), mestrado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2003) e doutorado em Ciências, Programa de Enfermagem Psiquiátrica pela Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo (2009). É Professora Adjunta da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, vinculada ao Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional, ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Terapia Ocupacional e ao Núcleo Multidisciplinar e Integrado de Estudos, Formação e Intervenção em Economia Solidária (NuMI-EcoSol) da UFSCar. É investigadora de pós-doutoramento no Núcleo de Estudos sobre Democracia, Cidadania e Direito (DECIDe) do Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (CES/UC).

Anita Guazzelli Bernardes (CES/UCDB/CNPq): Possui graduação em Psicologia. Mestrado e doutorado em Psicologia. Professora e pesquisadora no Programa de Pós graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Católica dom Bosco, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. É investigadora de pós-doutoramento no CES.

João Arriscado Nunes (CES/FEUC) Full Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics and Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, of which he was Executive Director (1998-2000). He is co-coordinator of the Doctoral Program "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation). He is currently a member of the coordinating team of the project ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unexpected Lessons, directed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and funded by the European Research Council.

Activity within the Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group (DECIDe) and the Science, Economy and Society Research Group (NECES)