Territórios e territorialidades na cidade: práticas jovens na/a partir da escola pública de periferia em Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

This coursework deals with the townspeople territories of young people and their reverberations in public school of the periphery in Juiz de Fora, a city in the “Zona da Mata Mineira”. The main purpose is to analyze and understand the dynamic territorial between students in a school - a geographical analysis of field - recognizing who are these territories producers that manifest as in the city, as in the school space. It is based on the premise that the youth movement goes from home to school and returns to the city, later. It was used the qualitative research methodology, combining questionnaires and semi-structured interviews in dialogue with the people. The coursework is divided into four parts: the first discusses the school as a territory in the city, a moment which some initial approaches about the territory and its fundamental elements, power and borders are highlighted. The second part approaches the concept of neighborhood and its everyday territorial relations, involving aspects such as territoriality between and intra-districts and emphasizing the subordination processes and social stigmatization. The third part points out the reasons that lead the young students to school, stressing what is to be a young wanderer and underling in the contemporary city also stands out as the young bodies are considered territories and how territoriality that carry with them arise and relate in school. Finally, the fourth part presents the relationship between the cultures of the young people involved in research and how to project for the city from the school grounds, especially in informal soccer events, dodgeball and hip-hop, moments that also allow an analysis of class, gender and ethnicity relations among the young people. In this regard the school here is seen as a social reflection and reproduction condition of society and contributes to the dialectical movement of the pair homogeneity-heterogeneity.