Entre modernização, diversão e controle: as práticas dos jogos de azar em Fortaleza na primeira metade do século XX.

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the trajectory of urban modernization in Fortaleza, mainly between the 1930s and 1940s, demonstrating social tensions about fun activities and entertainment and see how newspapers denounced and criticized the city's problems, built meshes to enlarge disciplinary actions, managed the resizing of the city of Fortaleza as a strategy to imprison the entertainment according to the social groups on the scene. From the analysis of articles in newspapers, processes, crimes and other texts, we tried to understand the "civilizing" situation in the course of the first half of the twentieth century, and the contention that sought to define, assume and end essentially popular entertainments, commonly they shared the space for practices that were considered immoral. Thus, the concerns of those means which bequeathed representations of Fortaleza that destined disciplining strategies on popular practices. Between different discourses of complaints, they led the resistance of everyday practices, gambling survived the incarceration and continue s to spurn the written more than those who are educated for the pleasure of gambling. What is at stake is the game itself, the distancing of entertainment among different social categories.