Salvador, cidade movente: corpos dissidentes, mobilidades e direito à cidade

Abstract

Based on the new mobility paradigm, this thesis investigates the Old Center of Salvador and analyzes the sociocultural history of this territory based on the movement of people, objects and ideas. In addition to investigating how mobilities were at the base of changes in urban space, they are also seen as the social sphere capable of enhancing conflicts based on differences and social markers (race, gender and class). The idea of a dissident body capable of facing up to urban transformations imposed by hegemonies and the impositions of ways of life and other norms that govern the right to public appearance and transit in the city is pursued. Mobile artifacts and ways of moving (trams, cars, bicycles, walking, etc.) have emerged throughout history as structuring relations in the city space and also as tools for organizing and mobilizing people. The multidisciplinary investigation brings together knowledge from various fields of studies and theoretical currents such as urban studies, gender studies, anti-colonial studies, urban sociology, mobility studies and political ecology. These are conclusive elements of the thesis: 1 - modernity is not fully established in the city, despite the cars symbolizing a partial victory of hegemony, which does not happen without resistance, made in a special way by the dissident bodies; 2 - modernity represented a barrier to other ways of life not aligned with European life, namely, indigenous and African organization and practices; 3 - new social practices linked to the body can change the city; 4 - mobility has been able to bring people and interests together, expanding the right to the city; 5 - active transport reduces the emission of pollutants and outlines the future that is approaching from the end of the world as we know and from the profound changes that will take place by the end of this century; 6 - all these aspects, movements and mobilities underpin various popular manifestations in Salvador, which allows us to think of it as a "moving city", namely, a territory constituted and structured from the movement with reflection in events, such as Carnival, the Bahia Independence Party, processions, symbols such as the sloop and characters such as the “Mulher de Roxo”.