Urban occupation, social medias and the resistance territorialization: the case of Aparecida de Goiânia, Brazil

Abstract

The analyses here proposed are based on the assumption of the city as the fundamental locus of contemporary tensions. The investigational itinerary tried to explain how the urban culture, considered the central move that daily takes place within the city, establishes with the landscape a relation of resistance against the global dynamics that penetrates places. The object of our study is Aparecida de Goiânia, a city comprised in the metropolitan region of Goiânia-GO. This study has leaned over the cultural materialities perceived in the landscape of Aparecida de Goiânia, intertwining theoretical approaches and contents gathered through interviews and questionnaires carried out with social actors directly involved in non-official culture. Between March 2013 and June 2015, more than three hundred groups/artists were identified, and about eighty institutions and seventy venues that systematically stimulate cultural life in the municipality of Aparecida de Goiânia. We have also added to the empirical research, one hundred and twenty one groups and artists who have profiles in digital social medias. The analysis, in this case, also permeates how digital social medias foster mechanisms of strengthening the cultural dynamics in the process of the lascape's materialities configuration. This materiality, objects, absorb the flows of local rationalities produced by individuals and organized groups, that the participation in these digital social medias encourage belonging, building territorialities resistant in the city.

Keywords:
Urban culture; Digital social medias; Territorialization of resistance