Entre concebido, percebido e vivido: efeitos da turistificação e patrimonialização na produção do espaço do Círio de Nazaré em Belém-PA

Abstract

The Círio de Nazaré in Belém-PA has attracted flows of visitors since its origins, but from the midtwentieth century, with the advance of capitalism, the Church, agents of marketing offer and public authorities started to organize and intensify actions for the expansion of that attractiveness touristic, as well as to act in the heritagization of that event. Such processes stand out in the production of the space of this festivity and can be analyzed from the Lefebvrian dialectical triad of perceived, conceived and lived spaces, where the hegemony of some agents who make up what Gramsci understands as integral State is revealed in actions that they mix consensus and coercion. Thus, this research analyzes the production of the Círio de Nazaré space through the processes of its touristification and heritagization, investigating the agents involved in them, the coercive and consensual control strategies used in the conceived space and its effects on the festivity’s perceived and lived spaces, as well as the contradictions, pointing out from actions subversive to the market logic the viability of restitution of the Festival. For this purpose, the main methodological procedures are survey and bibliographical and documentary research, field observation and semi structured interviews. The research demonstrates that the hegemonic agents of touristification and heritagization of the Círio de Nazaré have sought to expand their domain over the this festivity’s space, based on the capitalist logic, masking contradictions that, when identified by subordinate agents, leverage actions that can contribute to the construction of a new hegemony.