Investigando a relação de crianças na/com a cidade de São Gonçalo: identidades e pertencimentos na (trans)formação de infâncias do Condomínio Venda da Cruz

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the relationship of childhoods with the city of São Gonçalo, bringing as a delimitation the process of construction of identity relations and belongings of children in the Venda da Cruz Condominium, located in the city, in the neighborhood of the same name, after the change of their other neighborhoods (territories of belonging) from which they left - in what sought an accomplice investigation with a qualitative, ethnographic approach, by which children, participants in the investigation and production of other knowledge, are understood as subjects of law, constituted historically, socially and culturally, with the contribution, mainly, of the Sociology of Childhood. Authors such as Castro, Santos, Tavares, Lefebvre, Arendt, Benjamin, among others, helped me to think about the experiences of our meetings and disagreements - from the advent of the pandemic that crossed the research in the middle of its process. As well as reflecting on the relationships of children and their contexts of political action, especially in public collective spaces, reaffirming the constant tension between their formation for citizenship and the relations between different age groups; especially when they suffer, in addition to a change, the interruption of research, causing a deviation in the set of interlocutors and also in the geographies experienced in the course of the From a methodological point of view, special attention was paid to the narratives expressed by children, in their multiple languages that cover childhoods: play, literature, corporeality and their drawings, which have been a data production device with children. The concepts of the "newcomer", thinking of the child as the foreigner, the one who reaches a world that precedes it; and "educability", taking Education as relational and dialogic, beyond schooling and possible "not only to adapt us but above all to transform reality, to intervene in it, recreating it" (FREIRE, 1996, p. 35); there were essential to investigate and understand the relationships of children in/with the city and the (trans)formations derived from these experiences.