Geografias insurgentes: práticas espaciais e a luta pela autonomia da juventude negra e periférica em Salvador-BA

Abstract

In the last decade, numerous literary soirees emerged in the cultural scene of Salvador City; these soirees, which have been spreading throughout the city, are organized, in their majority, by black, poor and peripheral youth, who took the the soiree as a form of political mobilization and self-organization based on libertarian principles: self-management, autonomy, mutual aid, and horizontality. In this context, based on the principle that collectives and cultural manifestations have been a very fruitful laboratory for experimenting new ways of operating politics (GHON, 2016), this thesis aims to discuss the insurgent spatial practices of youth, focusing on two collectives, Bairro da Paz Vive – BDP and Juventude Ativista de Cajazeiras – JACA, which, in turn, organize the soirees in two popular neighborhoods of the Bahian capital, respectively: Bairro da Paz and Cajazeiras, seeking to answer the following questions: how are libertarian principles constructed and operationalized in the researched collectives? How did geographic science relate, or how does it relate to libertarian thought? How do the insurgent spatial practices of these young people reverberate in geographic space? Who are these young people and how do they represent (live, perceive and experience) youth? What is the amplitude of the sociability networks that are woven in the soirees and what is the scale of action of these collectives? In the end, we found that the soiree plays a powerful role in/for the construction of sociability networks for young people in the city: it is the crossroads (ROSÁRIO, 2019), the place for meeting, learning, doing, debating, building, and operating politics. The soiree is the node in the network of relationships that are woven in the political and cultural scene in Salvador; it is the space for the production of youth autonomy, where young people are experiencing and building another way of being a poor and peripheral young black person, in Salvador City.