O espaço travestido: ritmos e transformações identitárias em um território urbano

Abstract

The mission of this thesis is to investigate and present the varied uses, clashes and perceptible symbols in Aracaju / SE Downtown, mainly involving a group of transvestites who have lived, frequented and worked for more than twenty years in the same location, in order to reveal the sequence of transformations that the place went through in that period and the modes of occupation that they developed to remain there. The proposal consists, based on the observation of the trajectory and daily life of my interlocutors, who come together in a non-governmental organization named Unidas (Association of Transvestites United in the Fight for Citizenship), to study the main impacts that urban planning caused and it still provokes in their reality, to understand the dominant logic behind the institutional projects conducted by the Public Power downtown and the movement of invisibilization, removal and hostility that they, directly or indirectly, engender to the subalternized population (addicts, street residents, informal workers, etc.), which includes the transvestites studied. In the opposite direction, the devices and stratagems they use to resist and redefine the spaces they inhabit will be analyzed, reconfiguring their own identities and experiences, as well as the notions of conventional or hegemonic cities.