A percepção ambiental e imagem corporal dos trabalhadores da feira Manaus Moderna: desafios e superações

Abstract

This paper emerges from the uneasiness of the socio-environmental problems that men and environment share, which cannot be understood separately because they are linked and are interdependent. Such uneasiness are evident in the urban environment of Manaus city, the topofilic link of the human love for the place between the researcher and the environment of the fair that becomes real in the investigation of complex themes, as the environmental perception, understood as the mental process of interaction of the individual person with the environment that is given through the perceptive and mainly cognitive mechanism (Del Rio, 1999). And the Corporal Image, proposed by Schilder (1999), which is the configuration of our body formed on our minds, with tridimentional focus: physiological, libidinal and social. Based on these theories we had as a goal to analyze the Corporal Image and Environmental Perception of the worker of the Manaus Moderna fair to constitute a list of possible improvements in this environment. We have chosen the method of study case (Yin, 2005) because it favors a deep study of the fifteen (15) selected interviewed workers in this investigation who granted us the knowledge on this environment and their experience and reality of every day work. For that, we used the techniques of documentation (Yin, 2005), direct observation (Yin, 2005), semi-structured interview (Yin, 2005) and the technique of photograph proposed by Ferrara (1999) as sources of evidence in the collection of data analyzed subsequently by the strategy of triangulation of qualitative and quantitative forms, which revealed the following results: a) in the environmental perception the workers at the fair realized that they have very bad conditions regarding air circulation (100%), first aids (80%), parking lot (73.3%), corridors (66.7%), and bad conditions regarding sewer (60%), cleanness (60%), roof protection (53.3%), a good location of the fair (53.3%), good location of their stands and water (53.3%); b) regarding the corporal image the workers at the fair are unsatisfied about their rest and sleep time (80%), the outfit (73.4%), the muscle resistance (73.4%), the flexibility (73.4%), the posture (66.7%), and the weight (66.7%), satisfied for being a worker at the fair (93.3%), for being popular (100%) and vocabulary while attending the customer (100%). Having as suggestions of improvement: necessity of maintenance and/or reform of the parking lot, corridor, ventilation and cleaning of the Manaus Moderna fair, as well as, the conditions of the producer s port, which is extremely important for the shipping and receiving of the products. And to offer health plans to the workers of the fair, capacitating courses, information about the social security and means of access to practice physical activities and/or leisure. We also point out in this paper the importance of thinking about the revealed points, when there is interest of actions of environmental management at the Manaus Moderna fair, because in this reality, it is latent the absence of the environment conservation, as well as, the intense working hours, which culminates with the absence of corporal rest and sedentary behavior, diminishing the possibilities of a better life quality and consequently causing a bad balance in the relation between men and urban environment, searching for a local sustainability. Therefore, it is necessary to think about public policies in this scenery, currently considered as the Supplying Center of the city, which is extremely relevant to the society as a whole