Saúde mental como rizoma: tramas de vida de estudantes pós-graduandas/os na Universidade Federal de Viçosa
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A presente pesquisa pretendeu acompanhar como as composições relacionais no cotidiano dos/as estudantes do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) podem potencialmente afetar sua saúde mental. Considerando o intuito de captar as intensidades de saúde e doença compostas nos movimentos inventados pelos/as discentes, adotou-se a cartografia como uma intenção metodológica, por se tratar de uma ferramenta que se propõe a mapear redes relacionais e os mundos emergentes dessas redes. Para seguir as geografias das intensidades e afetações desses/as, optou-se pelas narrativas produzidas a partir de quatro entrevistas não estruturadas, da modalidade não dirigida. Ao acompanhar as tramas de vidas dos/as participantes, encontrou-se a composição da saúde mental enquanto rede rizomática, constituída por múltiplas dimensões institucionais, relacionais, temporais, afetivas, geográficas e existenciais. Evidenciou-se que a saúde mental dos/as estudantes se tece nos agenciamentos, nas conexões, nos encontros e desencontros. As narrativas revelaram que não há um único movimento em curso, mas movimentos simultâneos. Enquanto um território se desmancha, concomitantemente outros começam a emergir. Enfim, a principal pista encontrada nessa jornada, foi a compreensão de que a saúde mental na pós- graduação não deve ser reduzida a um estado fixo, a uma característica individual e, muito menos, ao adoecimento mental. Trata-se de um processo que se produz tanto nas redes que sustentam a vida quanto nos momentos em que essas começam a se fragilizar; por isso, ela possuí esse caráter relacional e rizomático. Palavras-chave: saúde mental; pós-graduação; cartografia; rizoma.
This research aimed to trace how relational compositions in the daily lives of graduate students in the Graduate Program in Business Administration at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) can potentially affect their mental health. Considering the purpose of capturing the intensities of health and illness composed within the movements invented by the students, cartography was adopted as a methodological intention, as it is a tool that proposes to map relational networks and the worlds emerging from them. To follow the geographies of these students' intensities and affectations, we chose narratives produced from four unstructured, non-directive interviews. By tracing the lifeworlds of the participants, mental health was found to be composed as a rhizomatic network, constituted by multiple institutional, relational, temporal, affective, geographic, and existential dimensions. It became evident that student mental health is woven within assemblages, connections, encounters, and misencounters. The narratives revealed that there is no single movement underway, but rather simultaneous movements. While one territory dismantles, others concomitantly begin to emerge. Ultimately, the main clue uncovered in this journey was the understanding that mental health in graduate education should not be reduced to a fixed state, an individual trait, or, least of all, to mental illness. It is a process produced both within the networks that sustain life and in the moments when these networks begin to weaken; for this reason, it possesses an inherently relational and rhizomatic character. Keywords: mental health; graduate education; cartography; rhizome.
This research aimed to trace how relational compositions in the daily lives of graduate students in the Graduate Program in Business Administration at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) can potentially affect their mental health. Considering the purpose of capturing the intensities of health and illness composed within the movements invented by the students, cartography was adopted as a methodological intention, as it is a tool that proposes to map relational networks and the worlds emerging from them. To follow the geographies of these students' intensities and affectations, we chose narratives produced from four unstructured, non-directive interviews. By tracing the lifeworlds of the participants, mental health was found to be composed as a rhizomatic network, constituted by multiple institutional, relational, temporal, affective, geographic, and existential dimensions. It became evident that student mental health is woven within assemblages, connections, encounters, and misencounters. The narratives revealed that there is no single movement underway, but rather simultaneous movements. While one territory dismantles, others concomitantly begin to emerge. Ultimately, the main clue uncovered in this journey was the understanding that mental health in graduate education should not be reduced to a fixed state, an individual trait, or, least of all, to mental illness. It is a process produced both within the networks that sustain life and in the moments when these networks begin to weaken; for this reason, it possesses an inherently relational and rhizomatic character. Keywords: mental health; graduate education; cartography; rhizome.
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FIALHO, Karina de Oliveira. Saúde mental como rizoma: tramas de vida de estudantes pós-graduandas/os na Universidade Federal de Viçosa 2026. 96 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa. 2026.
