Práticas cotidianas: a invenção do bairro de Cidade Nova, Natal - RN

Abstract

The quotidian is an experience that weaves the living of human beings. Through the writing of everyday life, the quotidian narrates the multiple layers of subjectivities entangled in the prosaic and poetic side of living. The movement between the prosaic and the poetic creates a spatial geopoetics with paths and bifurcations that show reality from the dynamics of spatial practices, whose unity is shown, in a unique way, in the neighborhood. In this context, the object of study is the Cidade Nova neighborhood, located in the West Zone of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte. This neighborhood carries in its daily spatial plot several writings, but, to a great extent, it has been identified by the plot of crime and fear, which leads studies to emphasize elements of spatial stigmatization. In this research, we put into question what is the neighborhood's quotidian as central, to mitigate this plot, bringing to light the multiple affectations that come to fragment and mark the quotidian plots. The main objective of this research is to describe the Cidade Nova neighborhood, considering the daily life imbricated in the spatial practices. This research is guided methodologically in the complex perspective, in which the everyday life and spatial practices are merged as a category, concept and analytical cut, being guided by the imbricated movements of remembering and forgetting and the trajectories of a metaphorical walker, inspired by the figure of the god Atlas that seizes, dissipates, disseminates love, suffering, fear and hope embedded in space and that weave everyday life of the inhabitant of Cidade Nova. In order to access this everyday life, the extension project "The untold geo-history of spatial life in the neighborhood of Cidade Nova, Natal-RN" was carried out at the Professor Emília Ramos Municipal School, where the cartography of everyday life was drawn up, shedding light on the subjectivities, deviations, desires and tactics of the residents of the Cidade Nova neighborhood.