Abstract

LARANJEIRA, Denise H. P.; IRIART, Mirela Figueiredo  and  LUEDY, Eduardo. Art as politics of resistance: cartographic devices in the apprehension of youth cultural practices in the Northeast of Brazil. Etnográfica [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.2, pp.427-452. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.5614.

This paper aims to understand the role of art in social and political integration of young people in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Northeast of Brazil, investigating the production and cultural diffusion of some collectives and cultural circuits, through a study inspired by social cartography and urban ethnography. These circuits, connecting groups of musicians (hip-hop), K-pop dancers, visual artists (graffiti) and poets, are understood as social networks, whose formative, aesthetics, ethics and political dimensions are little known. Youth cultural circuits created and gestated on the margins of hegemonic culture can enhance sociability among young people in their cultural, ethnic, racial and gender differences. Empirical approaches imply ­capturing the unpredictable singularities, in which subject and object emerge dialogically and dialectically. The methodological strategies developed were participant observation, accompanying practices and events among cultural groups and collectives; photographic records; interviews, walking through affective spaces chosen by the participants; dialogue groups and workshops. We intended to map and trace the routes and networks where subjective processes occurred, taking into account the tensions and contradictions in the urban space appropriation and cultural meaning-making among different cultural circuits drawn by the youngsters. More than to delimit territories of cultural practices, the study was concerned with promoting the construction of communicative and collaborative networks, where an educational perspective (of self and other) can mediate belonging and citizenship processes.

Keywords : youth culture; urban territories; cartographic method.

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