Matando a fome de lazer "Lá no meu Setor": práticas e sociabilidades na periferia de Belém (PA)

Abstract

Historically, through capitalist and eurocentric perspectives, concepts, practices and spaces proper to a hegemonic understanding of leisure have been developed, which legitimized conventional forms of what it would be, how it should be and in which spaces and times the practice of leisure should take place. In several public policies, these conceptions were established as the only possible leisure practices, favoring some people and neglecting many others. Hence, as a social convention, society began to consider leisure practices and spaces as excluding. Therefore, this research aimed to analyze the leisure practices of the Bom Jesus I Community, on the outskirts of Belém (PA), considering the macro and micro contexts of analysis, based on the interaction and sociability processes of local residents. To make this study achievable, from a qualitative approach, bibliographical, documental and field research were used. In an exercise of ethnographic practice, informal conversations, participant observation, semi-structured interviews and records in a field notebook were carried out. The investigation was guided both by an "outsider and long distanced view", considering the structuring processes (macro perspective), as well as an “insider and close-up view" (micro perspective), focused on the "inversions" practiced daily, for the leisure of this population. To “kill the hunger for leisure”, the “discoveries” revealed that over the years different practical alternatives and sociabilities were created from the processes of interaction between local residents. It was also established that, often alienated by hegemonic understandings, this population cannot see or consider their daily experiences as leisure. The conversations, the "crazy rock", the "jogo do bicho" (a brazilian popular game of chance), football and the "picnic" are "forms of entertainment", characterized by very particular dynamics, full of purposes and meanings, which enable this “sector” to have fun, make itself exist and resist day by day