Conflitos e ações coletivas nas universidades: elementos teóricos sobre novas formas de militância nas instituições acadêmicas

Abstract

This paper aims to point out some theoretical elements for the expression of the conflict and the emergence ofcollective actionwithin universities. We brought conceptual elements in the literature concerning the role of social movements in Brazil taking the LGBT movement as example. We seek to trace a brief history of these social movements from the diversification of forms of action and its institutionalization. The extent to which there is increased contact between researchers and social movement organizations there is a reciprocal influence between the two and the university becomes an important actor in the networks of movements. This context allows students to take owner ship of the demands of social movements and start pointing the same logic of exclusion in academic institutions. An example is the GUDDS!, a group that emerged to denounce situations of homophobia at UFMG