Presentation
The recent social struggles reveal two singularities: 1) they emerge from mobilizations among young people established within the world-system that occupy urban settings to express dissatisfaction and revolt; 2) they are criminalized by their peers - other young people or members of the same social classes. These struggles have come to take place in public spaces and consequently developing a collective presence that intends to discuss the new dynamics brought by digital media use, economic globalizations and the consolidation of representative democratic regimes. They demand changes in the existing political, economic and social formats, from confused scenarios and disputes which do so much by way of regulation as violence [Santos, 2010]. And they are criminalized in institutionalized discourses in big media, internet portals, blogs and signed articles; but also on feedback comments from readers and followers of such media, in a disorganized, careless and reckless demeanour.

Recently, struggles ruled under shock tactics, such as those triggered by the Black Blocs, seek to rebalance power relations, questioning rules that provide or do not provide access to individuals, that create forms of differentiation and structure inequalities. However, the path of violence intensifies the moods in social interrelations and makes room for subtle appropriations as practiced by multimedia companies with omnipresence in public and private bodies in the present world. The Black Blocs are action strategies in fluid networks and with loose ties that have emerged in the global scenarios in the 1980s, first as protection tactics in environmental movements in Germany and then in attack movements in the United States [Dupuis - Déri, 2010]. On both sides, direct action to confront the legitimate powers of repression (police) and oppression (market) is the performance brand.

The Black Bloc Brazil, as a network for mobilization and social struggles, appears on the national scene and gains visibility from the events that marked the pre-World Cup in 2014. Namely, in the Confederations Cup in June 2013, the black blocs took to the streets in several Brazilian cities from mobilizations initiated through virtual networks like Facebook and Twitter, recovering strategies of mobilization and organization of social struggle - in constant crisis since the great strategy of mass strikes inaugurated by anarchists in union movements of the nineteenth century.

We intend, in this Seminar, put into debate the issues guided by the Black-Bloc-Brazil phenomenon, both in the sense of direct action and mobilization from virtual media, as towards the acceptance/rejection of such struggles and flags raised by young Brazilians through the public opinion voiced in the media. We seek to revolve the theme of the black bloc so to fray structural issues of social inequality in Brazil manifested in categories such as class, age, education and ethnicity/housing. Finally, to discuss the conditions and knowledge production possibilities on youth, with youth and of youth.

Bio note
Giuseppa Maria Daniel Spenillo, holds a PhD in Social Sciences at the Graduate Programme in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA/UFRRJ). Spenillo is a professor at the Department of Social Sciences, UFRPE and was Coordinator (2008-2013) of the Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences/ UFRPE. She is also professor at the Graduate Programme in Rural Outreach and Local Development (POSMEX/UFRPE) and Coordinator of the Group of Studies and Research in Communication, Rights, Citizenship and Social Changes (COMUDI) certified in CNPq, and a Postdoctoral researcher at the CES/UC on Youths, digital technologies and emancipation.

Activity within the Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group (DECIDe)