O lazer no cotidiano: práticas coletivas como resistência

Abstract

This paper discusses the notion of the city, of everyday life, with a central focus on the occurrence of leisure. In that contexto the leisure is understood as a set of human practices experienced in a free and differentiated time that coexists temporally and spatially in different societies. The objective is to demonstrate that in different spatial contexts there are various practices that, despite being considered litte important, constitute significant content of urban social life. These leisure practices exist because they re-exist to an irreducible logic of power. In other words, they are expressions of social daily life that are not captured by the technical rationality of urban forms and that are dissociated from a pattern that is based on consumption and the ephemerality of social relations. The reflection proposed here starts from a bibliographic review combined with repeated field observations that took place in cities in the Amazon and other regions of Brazil. In spite of the predominance of the abstraction of urban space, it was found that the subjects, in different times and spaces, maintain a sophisticated network of interaction and sociability whose materiality refers to spontaneous, non-rationalized practices, highlighting real paths to a city, a daily life , different for and for leisure.