Geografia da folia: leituras territoriais da micareta Carnatal

Abstract

The work focused on the theme of the festivities, despite the little discussion in the interface of the academic community, demonstrate to be a rich exponent to scientific knowledge, especially to the Geographical Science, through cultural approaches. In this sense, the Carnatal event, as a territory that creates associations by bodily, visual and sound stimuli, becomes a precious object of study. In the light of Cultural Geography, we seek to demonstrate that in micareta there are different behaviors, endowed with a dynamic inherent to the multiple senses and meanings, focused on the constructive notion of territoriality in chaotic spaces. With this, this research aims to understand Carnatal as a vector of territorialities, which allows the typification of the composition of these singular areas. To achieve this goal, its focus also includes approaches to social construction, identifying territorial practices and strategies at different scales. Through theoretical perspectives that involve the area of interest of this work, the conceptions about city, urban space, parties and territory assume inevitable conditions, which can make the categorization of bibliographic and documentary materials safe for the construction of textual narrative. We chose the case study, based on the descriptive method and the qualitative approach, using some research techniques, such as participant observation and the use of electronic questionnaires, with open and structured questions to support the interviewees' representations. In its essence, the event assumes possibilities of dissenting actions through the multiplicity of interests that make up the social body, in the search for autonomy and dominance. Thus, we seek to collaborate to build a geographic knowledge that is not limited to an illustration directed to the characterization of the party, but understand the collective demands, the use and appropriation of the city space, the dynamics between the public and the private, as well as the conditioning factors that denote territorializations from the symbolic universe associated with artistic practice. It is then perceived that the formation of four territories, herein called Connection, Coexistence, Operation and Exclusion. To this end, the historical, social, political and economic context reconfigures the festivity, because in the field of which it is part the subject passes from a moving being that acts, thinks and produces meanings. In this context, the construction of shows inserts participants in scenes of movement that determine the singularities and way of acting of each social actor, according to the personality in which it fills the space inserted. Music manifests its playful context, motivating the artistic experience of citizens and, for off-season carnival, it provides sociability that integrates sensory, motor and perceptual experiences. Thus, the Carnatal in this work assumes the primacy of being a fragmented utopian event, governed by the power of capital and dominated by social processes, which (dis)builds the experiences and ephemeral experiences of participants through games, emotional processes, occupations, stories and body expressions with the awakening of the taste for music.