The High Schooler's Occupations in Goiás

The Advancement of Institutional Violence and the Limit of Claim Tactics

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the process by which the State absorbed the secondary school occupations in Goiás. To this end, the study is directed from the perspective of the students themselves and, in this way, seeks to understand and explain the processes that culminated in the end of the occupations. In this way, we resort to bibliographic and documental research, so that it is possible to understand the social phenomena involved in this process of struggle and the development of State action in the occupations. Based on this, we seek to analyze the complaints presented by the students themselves through the pages of the occupations. Another important issue analyzed in this paper is to present the form of organization of the high school movement in Goiás, which daily affirmed and reaffirmed its self-management character. At the same time, tactics are understood as a micro aspect of strategy. Tactics are understood as a set of actions that are used to achieve a certain goal. Within this, four steps are observed that develop in order for the State to end the high school occupations against the privatization and militarization of public education. Finally, it is concluded that while the state has absorbed and put an end to the occupation method as a form of claim, it has also developed mechanisms for this method of organization to cease to exist. Thus, the present work provides an understanding of the relationship between the State, Violence and Social Movements, allowing a deeper and more practical understanding of the relationships and interrelationships that permeate this process.