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Reinventing the \city\: symbolic disputes over the production and audio-visual display of \cultural collectives\ in São Paulo

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Author(s):
Guilhermo André Aderaldo
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Heitor Frúgoli Junior; Heloisa Buarque de Almeida; Maria Elisa Burgos Pereira da Silva Cevasco; Karina Kuschnir; Licia do Prado Valladares
Advisor: Heitor Frúgoli Junior
Abstract

This research has the primary interest to understand the way in which the relative democratization of access to communication devices (especially audiovisual) - in a context animated by expressive changes in paradigms responsible for cultural and social policy guidance in Brazil they have been generating conditions for the production and strengthening of new imaginary of the city and its divisions, which have been stimulating concurrent readings related to the different interpretations given to the border which regulates the crossing between the notions of \"center\" and \"periphery.\" To do so, it focuses on the investigation of relations and representations around the Coletivo de Vídeo Popular (CVP). A network of various associations (collectives) whose integration stems from links between heterogeneous sets of people interested in the use of audiovisual tools as a way of \"occupation\" of precarious urban spaces. When analyzing the field of relationships and symbolic disputes in which these agents are engaged, paying attention to how the notions of \"center\" and \"periphery\" appear in a variety of interactional contexts, the aim is to understand the many implications related to the polysemy of these concepts and how they can be used \"tactically\" in different \"social situations\". (AU)