Resumo:
This dissertation aims to discuss the rural sociocultural context of a given region, the
configuration of power relations distributed in this scenario, the performative repertoires
of masculinities, intergenerational differences and the interface of these dimensions
with the use of psychoactive substances (COLLINS, 2002; GRUND, 1994;
QUINJANO, 2005; SANTOS, 2015; VIGOYA, 2019). It is about understanding how
the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances can be related to the life dynamics
of certain groups, including the way in which class relations, ―race‖, generationality and
gender are constructed and are constructed related (AKOTIRENE, 2018; FANON,
1969; GONZALEZ, 2020; MACRAE, 2021; ZINBERG, 1984). The data constructed
and interpreted here come from different areas of psychoactive use (horseback riding,
piseiros, cockfights, walls, sambas de roda, etc.), as well as from work relationships,
community relationships and the interlocutors access to social assistance devices (
ROMANÍ, 1999). The data pointed to a complex system of sociability among men from
rural communities, where together they establish social rules, compete with each other
for collective desires and life projects, have fun and participate in sociocultural drinking
rituals. Reports of drunkenness in the land of the sun are not limited to the use of one or
more substances, but in the relationship of these uses with coloniality, intersectionalized
oppressions and the social reality of a field of research that is still little visible in
studies, even interdisciplinary ones, and social assistance disciplines.
