Violência e cidade: sociabilidades, territórios e relações étnico-raciais no conjunto habitacional Severino Cabral - CG.

Abstract

Campina Grande, once considered quiet, has been described by the media, public safety officials, and the population in general as a violent place. This has helped to build different patterns of sociabilities and occupation of urban space mediated by fear. Furthermore, violence has promoted a symbolic reorganization, classifying - often in stereotypical and prejudiced way - territories and social groups in dangerous or not dangerous, then, relating it to forms of segregation and discrimination. In Campina Grande, at least a decade, fear of violence has been one of the strongest brands in the urban experience. Violence has delimited paths, marked distances, organized sociability and established social boundaries. This Master's thesis has as its theme the relationship between violence, sociabilitie, territories and ethnic-racial relations in housing Severino Cabral located in Campina Grande - PB. In this research, from an ethnographic experience, I watched how the violence has been central to the organization of everyday social practices within the locality. Real or imagined - The violence comes mediating different types of interactions and ways of occupying public space, as well as symbolically organize Severino Cabral conflicts between neighbors and neighborhoods.