Assédio sexual na Universidade Eduardo Mondlane: um estudo sobre o processo de constituição da denúncia e não denúncia por parte das estudantes, cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This research is about the process of constituting the reporting and non-reporting by students who suffer sexual harassment on the campus of Eduardo Mondlane University. The objective of the study was to understand the paths students take to decide to report and not to report cases of sexual harassment. The research adopted a qualitative methodology, using the in-depth interview as the data collection technique. The sample consisted of 8 (eight) students, defined by saturation. The selection of the interviewed students was done in an intentional manner combined with snowballing. The theoretical debate was centered on Alain Touraine's theory of the subject which assumes that man is characterized, above all, by the overcoming of a situation, of what he manages to do with what they have made of him, even if his objectification is never recognized. The theory is guided by the notions of individual, subject, and social actor of which are described from an agency perspective. These notions accompany the whole process of constituting the reporting and non- reporting of sexual harassment cases. The study found that during the process of reporting and not reporting cases of sexual harassment, students tend to present behaviors of individual in which they tend to act according to the specific relations of the university space and behaviors of subject and social actor where the actions are the product of concrete experiences that reflect the will to reaffirm their personal identity and the need to control their conditions of existence. It was also found that it is from the development of the consciousness of the subject that the students become self-determined to create strategies to resist sexual harassment and conflict with the macro and micro-social forces that prevent her from being reflected in her social relationships. Therefore, at this level of consciousness the decision to report and not report is a choice that depends largely on the personal subjectivity of those who oppose and claim these practices