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| Author(s): |
Giancarlo Marques Carraro Machado
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-09-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Guilherme Cantor Magnani;
Cleber Augusto Gonçalves Dias;
Heitor Frúgoli Junior;
Alexandre Barbosa Pereira;
Luiz Henrique de Toledo
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| Advisor: | Jose Guilherme Cantor Magnani |
| Abstract | |
This thesis explores the multiple configurations, distinct agencies, negotiations and contradictions which compose the fabric and fabrication of cities and urban lives. I particularly focus on the tactical negotiations developed by street skateboarders to overcome the restrictive urban policies in São Paulo city. I recognize tactics and strategies as powerful conceptual tools to analyses how the practice of street skateboarding involves struggles, resistances, transgressions, conflicts and negotiations, and different positions against the structures of power and control produced by urban government policies over the public areas. In other words, I examine how street skateboarders tactically resist certain urban planning and question some strategic embellishments of a metropolis managed by and for consumption interests. Thus I contribute to urban anthropology studies by revealing how skateboarders through their own perceptions, manners and experiences creatively challenge the premises which permeate proper places marked by expected univocalities and stabilities. My study argues that those young dwellers produce new approaches and symbolic values which contribute crucially to the redefinition of public space as a place practiced. The São Paulo of skateboarding, therefore, presents itself not as something finished and defined, but in permanent construction due to its relational and situational character. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/23331-0 - The "Mecca of the skateboarding": ethnographic analysis of the São Paulo - Barcelona circuit |
| Grantee: | Giancarlo Marques Carraro Machado |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |