Vivências transmasculinas em espaços educacionais de nível superior do Sul do Brasil e a multiplicidade espacial

Abstract

This thesis evidences how the experiences of transman in higher education spaces in southern Brazil constitute their multiple spatialities. Thus, for a better understanding of the phenomenon, we list three sub-questions, namely: 'How is the process of identifying of trans men who experience the higher education?'; 'How are higher education spaces in southern Brazil experienced by trans men?'; and 'How do the academic experiences of trans men in higher education relocate these people in their multiple spaces?'. For this purpose, the intelligibility trajectory of the chosen phenomenon was outlined based on 10 interviews with trans men who experience/experienced higher education spaces. The cutout of the group was constituted from the snowball technique until we reached the saturation point. The spatial cutout took place through the dialogue established with participation in the LGBT + movement. The interviews were transcribed, analyzed and systematized based on the content analysis of the speech, which fed into the LibreOffice Base database. In this way, a total of 782 discursive evocations were found. The results obtained point out that the educational spaces of higher level are constituted by (cis)heteronormativity and that they are articulated with other spatialities that these transman experience simultaneously. Thus, when accessing academic spaces, these transman need to accomplish permanence tactics, explaining the power relations that constitute these spaces. Notwithstanding, this presence of subjects in higher education destabilizes hegemonic norms, enabling new spatial arrangements, relocating these transman in the power relations between center and margin simultaneously. Given the connection between spatialities, their academic experiences also influence and are influenced in the constitution of other spatialities. In this way, disturbing the spatial relations, they are simultaneously relocated in the power relations between center and margin in the constitution of multiple spatialities from their academic experiences. In addition, the discussions held in this thesis are precursors to the discussions of transmasculinities and their relations with higher education in Geography.