Tese
Sobre outras revoluções possíveis: o lazer e a festa como forma de resistência nas ocupações urbanas da Izidora
Fecha
2019-08-27Autor
Izabella Galera
Institución
Resumen
This research seeks to raise the discussion about leisure practices as a form of
resistance to the hegemonic production of urban space, based on the experience of
Izidora Urban Occupations in Belo Horizonte / MG, unveiling here other elements
inserted in the middle of the struggle for housing, pointing to a struggle for the right to
urban life, for the right to laugh and be happy in the city. This research is anchored in
experiencing and reflecting on leisure in occupations, mapping the production of
space through plays, parties and games in territories that are in the midst of an
emblematic urban conflict that disrupted a millionaire project that was planned for the
region. These spatial practices are supported by popular knowledge that even
without institutional support that guarantees access to basic rights for a dignified life,
put in manifestation other forms of production of the space constructed daily. Along
with the occupations of Rosa Leão, Esperança, Vitória and Helena Greco in the
region of Izidora, the spontaneous leisure practices were verified and where these
are territorialized, thus participating in the most pleasant and pleasurable part of life.
It is understood here that the plays, the laughter and the party have the capacity to
humanize the city, claiming it for its use value, being counterproductive and,
therefore, with the power to dissolve the hegemonic forms of production of the city.
Being an essential part of life, spontaneous play encompasses the notion of
autonomy, freedom, subversion, playful attitude, popular cultures and time-space. In
crossing these dimensions, mainly understanding who, where and how they are
practiced, leisure is defended as a joyful form of resistance and revolutionary
because it is free, to act in the bodies, in the imaginary in subjectivity and
intersubjectivity.