Title of Dissertation Project: "Pandemic Covid-19 and Social Isolation: Habits, needs and consequences faced by the gay population of the Metropolitan Region of Belém (RMB/PA)".

MSc Student: MARCELO SILVA DA CONCEICAO

Abstract: The current research project seeks to investigate the difficulties experienced by the gay population of the Metropolitan Region of Belém - RMB - as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It uses Karl Marx's method of historical and dialectical materialism as its theoretical and methodological support, and applies as methodological procedures the bibliographic, documental and field research, in order to make a survey and analysis of qualitative data. For the bibliographic research we surveyed dissertations and theses available in the CAPES Theses and Dissertations Catalog, articles published in magazines and books from the Library of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences - ICSA/UFPA. In the documentary research, analyses will be made of documents that contain the index of violence suffered by the LGBTQIA+ community, made available by the Department of Justice and Human Rights of the State of Pará (SEJUDH) and the Atlas of Violence of 2020, 2021 and 2022. The field research will concern interviews with gay men in the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The research aims to collaborate with studies about the LGBTQIA+ community, in order to identify the specific difficulties experienced by this social group during the pandemic. The hypothesis is that the pandemic can teach us about the discriminations and difficulties experienced by this social group in a neoliberal and biopolitical context, and in a specific region in the structure of Capitalism, the urban Amazon.

Keywords: Gay; Covid-19; Social Isolation; Coronavirus.

Examining Board:

Prof. Dr. JEAN FRANCOIS YVES DELUCHEY (Advisor) - UFPA

Prof. Dr. MARCEL THEODOOR HAZEU (Internal Evaluator) - UFPA

Prof. Dr.ª NELISSA PERALTA BEZERRA (External Evaluator) - UFPA

Venue: Multimeios Room FAAD/ICSA

Date: 06/14/2023

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