"Cidade para quem?" corpos-lugares, cartografias e vivências de estigmas no bairro Estação em Conceição do Almeida-BA

Abstract

Based on the understanding that the city is the locus of social production and reproduction, which implies ways of being and existing, perceiving how my body and other bodies, similar or different from mine, are crossed by stigmas was the starting point for reflecting on how representations condition the collective social imaginary. In this context, this dissertation research seeks to understand the relationship between being and its place based on socio-spatial stigmas. This perspective was analyzed in the Estação neighborhood, located in the city of Conceição do Almeida, in the Recôncavo region of Bahia. This popular neighborhood is disguised from what is perceived and conceived as a place devoid of life, in such a way that the subjects who live there are conditioned to the colonial-modern order of everyday situations. Using a dialectical-phenomenological approach (SERPA, 2019, 2021), which allows us to think of Representations as Stigmas and Stigmas as Representations, perception (MARLEAU-PONTY, 2006) and representation (LEFEBVRE, 2006) configure a dialectical pair, which abound in the lived experience as another possibility of what it means to be stigmatized. The dialogue was then based on the action of the body-place (BRITO, 2017), a notion created to map and experience stigma in the lived experience. Here, the place was thought of at the same time as a category of analysis and a geographical mode of existence (MARANDOLA, JR., 2014b), intertwining the cartographic narratives to tell a Geography of lived spaces (SERPA, 2019). Throughout the research, it became clear that stigma, as a representation, has concrete repercussions on the daily lives of the inhabitants of the Estação neighborhood, while individual or collective practices emerge as important mechanisms of subversion. The inhabitants of the Estação neighborhood reconfigure their places in a geographicity (DARDEL, 2011) that affirms their identities in an adverse context. In the meantime, we arrived at the possibility of considering stigma from the perspective of what is experienced as another representation, which condenses the social relations intrinsic to power relations, indicating an interdisciplinary analytical opening for the understanding of social relations in a sociocultural context, identifying material, psychological and social dimensions for the production of geographic knowledge.