Territorialidades das prostitutas do “Zero” em Várzea Grande/MT

Abstract

Prostitution is a practice present in the West from the Old Age, passing through the Middle and Modern Ages, in the different so-called Western territories. Each historical period had its own specificities about the activity, which oscillated according to social, spatial, economic, cultural, and so many other aspects that pervade human relations in general. Economic and urban developments seem to corroborate the effectiveness of this practice. This relationship is verified when historically analyzing prostitution in Brazil. In the present study, we start with a brief historical-geographical contextualization of the phenomenon, and then we will analyze concretely the spatial practices of prostitute women who territorialize an area known as Zero, located in the city of Varzea Grande / MT. The territorialities developed in Zero are intrinsic to the spatialities of the life of their agents, and the complementarity of both is an interrelationship of the global and local scales, a phenomenon that is concretely implicitly implicitly implicit in the spatial practices that they perform. We recognize that our interviewees can not be reduced to the specter of prostitution. In addition to the actual practice, there are women with their own identity, with different life histories, with different uses and considerations about prostitution. They concretize the territorialities that have been carried out for about forty years, corroborating the existence of a peculiar environment permeated by coercive practices, that is, spatial relations of power. Such practices obey an intelligibility specific to the place where they are performed. In this way, specific conduct norms and behavioral rules are established, governed by the needs pertinent to the activity developed there, that is, prostitution. This phenomenon is easily verifiable from the observation of different perimeters of influence within the studied territory: peripheral, pericentral and central areas. These perimeters are used according to the territorial empowerment capacity of each socio-spatial agent, obeying the rules and norms of spatial appropriation instituted from the accumulation of territorialities mentioned above. In order to elaborate the present discussion, we used the results obtained in some specific questions of the script of interviews, as well as bibliographical revision that guided us to questions that competed with the present problematic.