Jovens Unidos do Calabar (JUC): experiência de um movimento de bairro de Salvador (1977-1985)

Abstract

This thesis has as an objective to analyze the trajectory of the group Jovens Unidos do Calabar (JUC), neighborhood movement from Salvador - Bahia, from years 1977 to 1985. In these studies, we seek to comprehend the juvenile protagonism during the formation process of Calabar‟s neighborhood movement. The trajectory of the JUC group is an important instrument to think of social fights that were taken on by residents from popular neighborhoods of Salvador, in a period of political distension in the Brazilian military dictatorship. The conscience over the space occupied by juveniles in the city, conceived within the context of popular movements from Salvador, the influence of sectors of the Catholic Church and their own day-to-day experiences in the community and concerning the city allowed the juveniles from Calabar to create partnership networks, with social and political organizations, which dynamized the fight of the community in the neighborhood. In the development of these studies, we utilized as historical sources: regulations, institutional certificates, statutes, meeting minutes, letters, correspondences, releases, brochures, photographs, census, community newspapers, trade press newspapers and oral sources. From the analysis of those historical records, we understand that Calabar‟s neighborhood movement was conceived within a process of fighting for equipments and collective common goods, and also for housing rights. In other words, the right to the city. We comprehend Calabar‟s neighborhood movement, experienced between the years 1970 to 1980, as a landmark in the process of construction of Calabar‟s residents‟ identity.