O Hip-hop é o que o Hip-hop faz: a influência da cultura Hip-hop na produção de espacialidades e mobilização juvenil no bairro Dom Bosco, Juiz de Fora - MG

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the influences of Hip-Hop culture on the production of spatialities and youth mobilization in the Dom Bosco neighborhood, in Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais, Brazil). The study starts from the recognition that Brazilian urban peripheries are constituted as territories marked by historical processes of segregation and structural racism, but also by cultural practices of resistance. Hip-Hop is analyzed as a spatial pedagogy capable of promoting critical readings of the territory, the construction of collective identities, and mobilization for rights. The research adopts a qualitative approach based on participatory action research, conducting workshops on the elements of Hip-Hop and applying diagnostic questionnaires with youth from the neighborhood. The theoretical framework articulates concepts of the racialized production of space, the right to the city, territorialities, and spatial literacy, dialoguing with authors such as Lefebvre (1991), Harvey (2014), Santos (2006), Rolnik (1989), Gonzalez (1982), Almeida (2019), Oliveira (2006), and Gomes (2017). The central question examines how Hip-Hop strengthens belonging, identity, and the incentive to mobilize for rights. Empirical data show that territorialized workshops produce qualitative transformations in youth perceptions, manifested by the development of a political-cultural vocabulary and an expanded capacity to imagine interventions in the territory. The identified spatial literacy processes reveal links between artistic identities and geographic locations that operate to affirm territorial dignity. The study concludes that Hip-Hop acts as a pedagogy of resistance that values peripheral trajectories, offering a replicable methodological model for educational practices with youth and for the debate on spatial justice in Brazilian cities.