Narrativas da favela, narrativas da cidade: táticas de comunicação na Candelária, Morro da Mangueira

Abstract

Narratives from the slum, narratives from the city analyses how the reports at Candelária, one of the districts of Morro da Mangueira, in Rio de Janeiro. In the slum, the collective communication vehicles no longer exist. In that way, the narratives about the place are transmitted only by the oral tradition and, now, also get to the internet.The narratives here analyzed were collected in two years of research, in a work of participative observation that envolved interviews and the elaboration of field diaries.These reports, storytelling forms, would be what Michel de Certeau calls everday tatics , because they claim for new forms os citizenship, gaps which can insinuate a new text about the city. Like narrators, the habitants of Candelária invent a invisible and always temporary cartography, modifiyng a supposedly dominant order. Their reports, however, are not restrained only to day-by-day chater (or tiny stories), but also contain stories of use, ways of representing the body, itineraries, detours and shortcuts. Also, ways of consuming contemporary products and resources, and ways of turning this consume into production. There are uses that claim for a emacipation, but not a separation, they sketch a new writing about the city, making the polyphony that create, always, a culture in permanent slip. Within this space of hybridism and diasporas that is the city, injustices persist, despite the emergence of new social actors with their daily shrewdness. Boaventura de Sousa Santos concludes that it is necessary to reinvent a type of citizenship that is at the same time local and global; this work takes in account that there is a force that, by using different languages, subverts the traditional order towards this new citizenship. However, this force needs a real politics, and not academic, that handle different types of experiences, the slip flow that identifies our culture. Hereby, this dissertation points that there are no slum stories , but only stories that, arising from the slum, talk about the city, its contemporary problematics, and its subjectivities supported by a social poetry that is essencially impure and poliphonic.