As práticas dos vendedores ambulantes no centro comercial de Campina Grande (1970-1996).

Abstract

This thesis aims to detect the actions through spatial practices of street vendors in the center of Campina Grande city, in the period comprising the years 1970 to 1996. How these individuais appropriatte urban space, building territoriality to himself, the uncertainties of every day as part of the daily of these people, between assemble and disassemble tents, merchants' complaints and the action of government, which prohibited street trading. For this purpose, we used written sources as Diário da Borborema newspaper, founded in the 1950s, and the Jornal da Paraíba newspaper, founded in 1972, to assist us in historical context, of how the city and street vendors were presented, were said by the words of some journalists, who often fit through his speeches, street vendors as a homogeneous category. Besides the newspapers, we will use the oral reports of memory in an attempt to point out the peculiarities of each individual, the individual experiences arguing against the proposal by a homogeneous media, such as the newspaper.