Caminhadas na "escuridão ": (re)descobrindo a cidade de Campina Grande através das percepções sensoriais dos deficientes visuais (1989-2011).

Abstract

analyzes how the urban experiences experienced by the visually impaired in the city of Campina Grande allow them to construct and develop their sensorial perceptions through the different contexts of socio-spatial changes that occurred in the city during the period of 1989 and 2011. Starting from the perspective of different understandings that the disabled person allows us to do about the city, we divide our work into three chapters, in the which we will know and analyze three life trajectories and experiences with the city of Campina Grande, well differentiated. Among these experiences we will consider the as blindness presented itself in each of these trajectories and how the experience in the city has interfered in the process of adaptation and acceptance of the disability, as well learning and discovering their sensibilities in constructing their perceptions sensory information about the city of Campina Grande. Thus, the paths of our research the life histories of each deponent, to recompose in each biography the thematic cuts made in their personal trajectories. In this way, going through the various events and conjunctures, experienced and experienced by each of them in the most diverse daily situations, we try to find the best path to understand their sensibilities, difficulties and weaknesses in the face of this often painful and dramatic exercise of exposing their Life stories. In this sense, we approach Michel de Certeau's reflect on the city as a space practiced with steps that go back writing of the lives of those who inhabit it. On the construction of these spaces practiced in the imaginary of the visually impaired, we dialogued with Yu-fu Tuan. When thinking about the city, only as a visible place, but also sensitive and imaginary. discussions on sensibilities proposed by Sandra Jatahy Pesavento. To understand the stigma and imagery surrounding the condition of people with visual impairment in our city, we use the analyzes of Bruno Sena Martins. Among other authors and complement our analyzes and interpretations person with visual impairment.