The territory of management, territorial management: interpretation of nar-ratives after student occupation in Sorocaba-SP

Abstract

The last student occupations in 2015 brought with them a broad discussion about the territorialities of the São Paulo school, producing questions about the democracy of school management. In this context, through the conception of territory of Rogé-rio Haesbaert, we elaborate a case study looking for the identities that constitute this phenomenon. We chose a school in the outskirts of Sorocaba, which was under threat of closure in the "reorganization of the state schools in São Paulo", for the empirical deepening of the research. The study was based on the categories: identity, territory and school management, so that a critical and interdisciplinary analysis could be completed. Fieldwork was carried out at the school and at meetings of stu-dent movements, with the objective of deepening the qualitative analysis. We iden-tified with the study the presence of multiterritorialities as an important factor in the construction of authoritarian continuities, and that occupations were possible rup-tures as the modus operandi of management as a whole.