Riscos e estratégias de sobrevivência : flanelas e malabaristas

Abstract

This master’s thesis is the result of studies about the risks and survival strategies developed by car watchers and jugglers in the city of Cuiabá in Mato Grosso, which by anthropomorphizing transform, even for a brief period, the non-places into informal workplaces, whose performances operate daily as counter-flow to the modernist projects (social and urban), proposed as a solution to the humanization of all subjects. The problem is that not all individuals are absorbed by such projects; consequently, those who are always excluded, contrary to Durkheim's idea of collective consciousness, each one, in their own way, seek to ensure their financial commitments, through the dangerous game of endangering their lives. To comprise such actions, the same were experienced and reflected over the relationship context between informality, city, daily life and consumption, since that in everyday life, the practice of the “arts of doing”, how effective cunnings to surpass the economic difficulties, reveals that, each new day, there are, among the multiple ways to obtain money, on the margins of society, neotribalism groups of individuals who, although suffocated by the inevitable cycle of labor-money-consumption, seek to overcome the Goffmanian’s stigma of social exclusion, however, without violating moral and/or legal rules, but, mandatorily, giving new meaning to the topological spaces and topics of the city from representations that, when adapted to the available social forefront, are often judged as inadequate to the current regulations, a fact that, in the postmodern perspective, operates as a countercharge about the concept of own duality in binary societies, which can be realized only in daily life, that is, in what is apparently useless or insignificant to the archetypes of instrumental reason. In other words: this thesis reveals the ways that the watchers of automotive vehicles take ownership of a public place and turn it into a domain region to the passers, as well as identifies major street crossings with traffic light red, that are used by street artists in the practice of juggling in Cuiaba, accompanied by the description of the circus arts, specificities and main modalities. The concern of this study was to understand how public streets and avenues become private parking and how crosswalks below the traffic lights become circus stage.