Movimento hip-hop e educação : produção de sujeitos e espacialidades nas rimas da final estadual Rio Grande do Sul do duelo de Mc’s nacional 2022.

Abstract

This dissertation investigates how rap battles, embedded in the hip-hop movement, function as educational practices and as producers of subjectivities through the creation of spatialities. The central objective of the study is to understand how these battles educate subjects based on the spatial dynamics they inhabit and help shape. The research adopts a qualitative approach inspired by Foucauldian thought and uses as empirical material the lyrics from the final round of the 2022 Rio Grande do Sul State Championship of the National MCs Battle. By transcribing and discursively analyzing three battles featuring the edition’s champion, the study identifies how MCs challenge hegemonic discourses and generate counter-conducts that express resistance, identity, and territorial belonging. The discussions reveal that rap battles act as devices for producing knowledge and subjectivities by articulating lived experiences with social denunciation, peripheral activism, and demands for rights. These performative spaces operate as arenas of visibility for marginalized youth and enable an insurgent, situated, and affective pedagogy. Spatialities emerge as dynamic contexts where meanings of city, citizenship, and education are reconfigured, challenging conservative norms that criminalize peripheral culture. Thus, the hip-hop movement—through rap battles—constitutes a powerful educational and cultural practice. This practice, by producing subjects and subjectivities from the margins, displaces the center of knowledge production and urges schools and universities to recognize historically silenced forms of knowledge.