Crianças e territorialidades : As brincadeiras nas ruas do bairro da União em Parintins/AM

Abstract

The thesis presents the results of a study whose theme: "Children and territorialities: the games on the streets of the Union neighborhood in Parintins / Am". It aims to reflect on the games on the streets of the Union neighborhood with the perspective of understanding the processes of territoriality construction experienced in the freedom of street games. The street is generally regarded as dangerous and "evil factory", the thesis argues that it can also add a symbolic universe, built from the children who play, articulating the place with the cultural, subjective dimensions of the context. Seen as an invitation to idleness and delinquency, I am asserting that the street has particular forms of living the cultures of childhood, these experiences extend the social relations of children with their peers and strengthen the link between children and the city. During the course I tried to dialogue with different areas of knowledge, from an ethnographic point of view to perceive childhood from the children themselves, this put them in the condition of protagonists of their own history. To give visibility to their actions, which are almost always subjugated, as an unimportant thing, is at the same time to understand the ways in which they relate to space and how they construct their geo-graphies, as they face the challenge of geo-graphying their lives through the games, conforming new territories, new territorialities. (PORTO-GONÇALVES, 2001). In this come-and-go they fight with vehicles, compete with pedestrians and other groups of children to create a sense of belonging. The insertion of the researcher into the groups of students was what led me to undertake an approach based on the presuppositions of ethnography as a methodological condition that allow "look closely" and the phenomenological paradigm assumed as a way of interpreting the experiences lived by children. To that end, the interdisciplinary approach was necessary as a movement that allowed dialogue with Geography, Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology through Corsaro (2011), Sarmento (2009), Benjamin (2009), Tuan ), Raffestin (1993) and Vygotsky (1991), seeking to "walk" around the edges to intercept with different ways of conceiving the same question. The results show that one should not banish the cultures built by the children on the streets, particularly the games, because they are mobilizing identitary constructions that strengthen the bonds between children and the place of belonging, among children and other children, with the adults and between them and society. In the streets you can learn! One learns to be and act in society, to cope with the unpredictable, with adversities that a fatally protected life within the institutions (school and family) theoretically would steal them from living, from venturing and from taking risks. In the streets they recognize their identities and create links between their home and the world.