"O bom é a arriação!": circuitos de lazer e outras interações entre jovens de Campina Grande.

Abstract

This research aims to raise a debate about youth experiences and practices in a periphery of the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, bringing reflections about youth as a category to be understood by an ethnographic perspective. The main objective is to understand the experiences of the young residents of the neighborhood, especially when it comes to leisure activities. In this sense, a perspective was adopted which focuses on the analysis of youth through reflection categories such as circuit piece and path (MAGNANI, 2007) from the ethnography of the spaces that are occupied and (re) meanings by the young people. For this, it analyzed the interactions among young people, and also the theme of the periphery and their spaces, their interdependence networks with other groups and other places in the city, which brings us to the teachings of Da Matta (2003), who consider that many spaces and temporalities coexist simultaneously, and time (reality) and space fruits of a social construction. Thus, the city as a network that challenges the actors in their multiple dimensions, calls us to understand the transformations used in previously designed spaces. In this research, it is punctuated the relationship of young people and the establishment of sociability in Pedregal spaces. Moreover, they highlighted some issues such as social exclusion and the outskirts of conceptualization as important elements to situate this work.