The "Mecca of the skateboarding": ethnographic analysis of the São Paulo - Barcelona circuit

• Grant number: 12/23331-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: José Guilherme Cantor Magnani
• Grantee: Giancarlo Marques Carraro Machado
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The realization of Barcelona Olympic Games, in 1992, has made the urban landscape of this city suffered considerable changes. Although urban politics followed the economic logics, at least some citizens have benefited with changes implemented: the skateboarders. Due to a series of positive representations created around Barcelona - the "Mecca of the Skateboarding," according to a newspaper - many Brazilians skateboarders have strived to get there. The research proposed aims to examine the uses and appropriations of urban spaces through networks of relationships created between skateboarders, which expand between São Paulo and Barcelona. Following the networks which unfold through the production of images for specialized media, intend to perform less a comparison between the practice of skateboarding done in such cities, but to trace an ethnographic connection between these different spaces. Thus, during the research will be able to relate the different clippings inserted in the skateboarder circuit, which is not defined a priori but constructed from spaces, discourses, practices and heterogeneous representations.

Scientific publications

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GIANCARLO MARQUES CARRARO MACHADO. Os enquadramentos da citadinidade: sobre os impactos da prática do skate de rua na cidade de São Paulo. Rev. Antropol., v. 64, n. 3, 2021-12-06. (12/23331-0)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MACHADO, Giancarlo Marques Carraro. The city of spots: the practice of skateboarding and the challenges of urbanity. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.