Um sozinho não luta: O processo mútuo de construção da violência entre os parceiros conjugais

Abstract

The study analyses the process of the construction of violence in the context of relationships. The dominant literature looks at violence (regardless of the place of occurrence, time, context, causes and actors involved) as domestic violence. And when studies on so-called "domestic" violence are developed, their analysis First, the studies focus their analysis simply on the physical First, studies focus their analysis simply on the physical dimension of violence, leaving out the First, the studies focus their analysis simply on the physical dimension of violence, leaving out the economic, social, psychological and verbal fieldwork, they are ignored at the analytical moment of the phenomenon; Second, violence is explained from the patriarchal model of male domination. According to the explanation of this model, male individuals are the perpetrators of violence against females. Thinking about violence according to this model is problematic in two ways: (a) by its generalist nature-it looks at the individual male, in all societies, times and contexts, as the perpetrator of violence; b) The point is that it explains the phenomenon of violence from the material dimension dimension of the body - it looks at the penis as the defining factor in the practice of violence. Based on the ethnographic data collected in GAM in Bairro Alto-Maé, in Maputo City Maputo, the study decided to look at the phenomenon of violence in the light of the processualist perspective (developed by anthropologist Walter Neves) and Max Weber's Social Action Weber's Social Action Perspective. In summary, the analysis of the data allows us to conclude that violence in the context of conjugal relationships, is a phenomenon that is mutually constructed between the conjugal partners, which may or may not lead to physical violence. The data also allow us to affirm that the marital partners are beings aware of their own individuality and their own individuality and are capable of seeing themselves from the outside as others see them and are individuals with the capacity to create adaptive strategies of response to violence. to violence. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)