Bondes, periferias e conflitos: sociabilidades juvenis em Porto Alegre

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a research on so-called bondes in Porto Alegre. The sociability style of these trams is analogous to Cariocas galleys locals, young people who get together to hang out and enjoy the leisure spaces. The configuration of these groups occurs at the junction of individuals, residents of the city’s outskirts, which suffer a process of segregation and stigmatization that tends to confine them in their places of residence. Denying this territorialisation, but without losing the sense belonging, they add up around symbols of power, masculinity and violence to semanticizing your group, and go into circulation by the capital’s crowded spaces where they can make themselves visible. The association of these young people not only gives the vicinal closeness sense and belonging to the outskirts, but also in response to a situation of conflict felt within the group by how are perceived negatively in their forays to the center. From the definition of the situation, young people are organized in large groups that lead, in name or corners to chant in symbolic defense of the community in which they live. They use the conflict and stigmatization suffered by the others residents of the city to establish a shared social experience, founding it their subjectivity. This work was developed merging parallel, field research with members and former members of the bondes in their communities and bibliography research as a way to understand each new data from different perspectives. Thus, the study is divided into chapters that combine theory and empiricism an effort to observe the action of bondes from different divisions. To understand the different semantic matter of this sociability, this work was structured into theoretical and analytical axes: outskirts and stigmatization, conflict and violence, identify and recognition and aesthetics and gender. So, the methodological approach of this study complied the perception of bondes traversed for each thematic axis in an attempt to look at the object though different plans.