Nightlife Geography: nightlife's offer and consumption in Londrina - PR

Author(s)

Marcelo Custodio Pereira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Presidente Prudente. 2017-01-03.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente
• Defense date: 2016-10-21
• Advisor: Necio Turra Neto

Abstract

This work aims to illustrate the economic logics and the spatial practices of the nightlife entertainment in Londrina (Paraná - Brazil), which is understood to be a relevant aspect of the urban space production. This research give attention to the nighttime, considering this aspect has been poorly investigated in Urban Geography. The research object, which has as youth and youth cultures as the bulge, was built in the process of systematic observation of the Londrina’s nightclubs as the main research object for data collection. These premises were selected because of a spacial strategy by the nightclub’s owners that seem to reforce socio-spatial fragmentation. The four largest nightclubs in Londrina were studied by systematic observation approach and through interviewing owners, night workers and customers. Moreover, a survey was conducted in these establishments to collect information about socioeconomic and cultural profiles that support a circuit map of customer spatial practices on this format of entertainment. It is being observed that at nightlife business strategies, as such as consumer’s spatial practices, bring at its core a culture of consumerism that’s produces social distinction. This behaviour reviews certain peculiarities in the middle sized cities, that show a scale of market that seems to have more social classes sharing the same urban space compared to the same universe at metropolitan context. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/04440-5 - TERRITORIALITY AND YOUTH SOCIABILITY IN MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES: NIGHTLIFE CENTRALITY IN LONDRINA - PR
• Grantee: Marcelo Custodio Pereira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master