Vegetarianismo além da dieta: ativismo vegano em São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Ernesto Luiz Marques
• Orientador(a): Borelli, Silvia Helena Simões
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Vegetarianismo; Veganismo; Consumo; Estilo de vida; Violência simbólica
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Vegetarianism; Veganism; Consumption; Lifestyle; Symbolic violence; Pierre Bourdieu
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4199

This dissertation aims to investigate the vegan activism who are vegans, how vegan groups and collectives are formed, how they work and spread their cause - in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo. The initial working hypothesis is that the vegan activism is a form of social change, taking into account the questions that make the consumption of products and services that involve the use of animals. The study begins with a characterization of various aspects of vegetarianism - including veganism - considering in this analysis some key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu s theoretical approach, including some his concepts as habitus, taste, symbolic violence and lifestyles. Beyond Bourdieu's reference in the field of social sciences, three other authors, philosophers Peter Singer and Tom Regan and a lawyer, Gary Francione, are presented as theoretical thinker that contribute with some concepts - sentience, speciesism, animal welfare, among others - that serve of theoretical and practical reference to the action of vegans, on which I present a panel of its organization, operation and dissemination of ideas, analyzing their contributions to social change. I adopted a methodology that combines various techniques of quantitative and qualitative profile, as in-depth personal interviews, the online survey, interview by email only with open questions, ethnographic observation and virtual ethnography. A total of 230 vegetarians were interviewed to understand the vegetarian origins, considering the various types of vegetarians (lacto vegetarianism, egg vegetarianism, lacto egg vegetarianism and strict vegetarian or vegan), the differences between the regime and vegetarian eating habits, the main reasons for becoming vegetarian - health, religion, ecology, economics, ethics - as well as pointing out the profile, the characteristics of the lifestyle and the symbolic violence suffered by vegetarians in their daily lives. In this sense, the dissertation is inserted in the field of social sciences, particularly focused on anthropology of consumption, on appropriations and on uses