Abstract
The present text deals with the emotional origins of school dropout, analyzed from the ethnographic material collected through participant observation in the context of the Youth and Adult Education of the College of Application (CAp./UFRGS). It aims to understand the emotional mirroring in the phenomena of school drop-out, verifying it in the diverse and sensitive forms that it occurs. In the midst of dialogues and reports, the text penetrates the ethnographic density present at a specific moment of the field research, also focusing on the corporal and political dimension that is inscribed in the “late schooling” of the subjects. These sentimental experiences, understood as unresolved affections, are shaped in moral backgrounds that guide the decisions of the interlocutors, making evasion both ethical, personal and counterpolitical. Thus, the interpretive results of this first breath to the author’s field diary point to the fact that giving up is something emotional and politically important.
Keywords:
evasion; YAE; anthropology of emotions; ethnography