O habitus político e as políticas públicas de esporte do Estado do Espírito Santo – Brasil

Abstract

The political interest of public actors in public sports policies in Brazil is recent and gained prominence mainly due to the main global sporting events hosted in the country, such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. State of Espírito Santo, the development of the Esporte Pela Paz Project stood out as a strategy to combat violence against children and adolescents, highlighting sport as a transformative instrument for the exercise of citizenship, quality of life and social inclusion. In this sense, the objective of this research was to investigate the political habitus of the State of Espírito Santo in the years 2011 to 2014, namely in the adjustment of the field of policies of the Department of Sport and Leisure. Specifically, we sought to verify how and to what extent the political habitus of political agents interfered in the Esporte Pela Paz Project. To do so, we used qualitatively different sources of data collection, namely: semi-structured interviews and analysis of official documents. The research covered, in its entirety, the universe of former managers and ex-expense coordinators of the Municipal and State Secretariats who were responsible for executing the Project in the years 2011 to 2014. The interpretation of the collected material was carried out according to the technique of Content Analysis based on the categories that were defined a priori. It was concluded that a habitus prevailed among public actors that guided the standards of a certain course of their actions and that interfered in the adjustment of the field of policies of the Secretariat of Sports and Leisure, namely through the Sport for Peace Project. It was also found that a cycle that could be virtuous became vicious, due to the failure to consider limits to hegemony and the maintenance of power.