Nas subidas e descidas da Escadaria Selarón, Lapa/RJ: uma etnografia da construção social do espaço

Abstract

The Selarón Staircase, knows a Escadaria Selarón or Escadaria da Lapa , is located in the neighborhood of Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro, bears the name of the artist who has been performing artistic interventions in it since the 80's. Since that same decade, Escadaria and Lapa have been transformed by actions proposed by the powers Governmental organizations and also by civil society agents who, alone or in groups, enter into the movement of disputes and negotiations of the uses, meanings and representations of these spaces. The work that follows is about an ethnography that seeks to map the actors involved in these disputes for the social construction of this space. Starting from the artistic intervention of Selarón on the stairs and his management on space, I try to make approximations between these ways of managing this space with what has been happening in the region of Lapa and the city as a whole. This ethnography was carried out between 2010 and 2012, thus keeping the marks of this temporality.