Banca de DEFESA: Maurício Barbosa Carneiro

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STUDENT : Maurício Barbosa Carneiro
DATE: 19/08/2025
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: SALA DE ATOS DA FE 1
TITLE:

"Youth and Their Territorialities in the City of Formosa, Brazil: The Center Belongs to Us Too"

KEY WORDS:

City; Urban space; Youth; Territorialities.

PAGES: 262
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates youth territorialities in the city of Formosa-GO, focusing on the spatial practices of young people who appropriate urban public spaces, particularly in the city center, through cultural manifestations such as skateboarding, graffiti, and rap battles. These practices go beyond mere use of space, as they re-signify it, creating territories of belonging, identity, and resistance. From this perspective, the city ceases to be a given space and becomes a lived and contested space. The research aimed to understand how these young people construct their territorialities through everyday practices that transform urban space into a territory of symbolic dispute, confronting exclusionary processes and affirming their own ways of being and living together. The methodology adopted was qualitative, based on participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions, which enabled the capture of narratives and experiences of young people in their modes of occupying and transforming the city. The analysis was conducted using thematic analysis, structured into four categories that synthesize the main findings: the first highlights how spatial practices and urban interactions transform squares, decks, and urban furniture into spaces of social interaction and cultural production, symbolically reconfiguring the city center and affirming youth presence; the second reveals the barriers, conflicts, and processes of exclusion that limit the appropriation of these spaces, expressed through repression, prejudice, and the absence of public policies that ensure the right to the city; the third emphasizes youth cultural expressions as powerful forms of resistance and political affirmation, allowing young people to claim the city as a legitimate space for their existence and to occupy territories historically marked by exclusion; and the fourth uncovers the construction of identities and collective recognition, evidenced in the formation of community bonds and the consolidation of solidarity networks that sustain the public affirmation of popular cultures. The results demonstrate that youth practices in Formosa constitute legitimate forms of territorial production, resistance, and urban transformation, and that by challenging the exclusionary dynamics that shape the city, they also point to the possibility of its reinvention, affirming the presence of young people as political and cultural subjects who are protagonists in processes that reshape and redefine the uses and meanings of urban space.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - VICTOR HUGO NEDEL OLIVEIRA - UFRGS
Externa à Instituição - CLARICE CASSAB TORRES - UFJF
Presidente - 1767526 - MARIA LIDIA BUENO FERNANDES
Interna - 2212002 - VIVIANE NEVES LEGNANI
Interna - 1482848 - WIVIAN JANY WELLER