A criação do conhecimento interprofissional em turismo dentro de um campo político: barreiras e possibilidades

Abstract

In this thesis, the PBS current is followed and it is emphasized that the creation of interprofessional knowledge cannot be studied without considering contextual factors specific to the research field – the Municipal Tourism Department (MTD) of João Pessoa, Paraíba. This was created and created the Municipal Tourism Council (MTC) in response to qualification criteria to integrate federal programs, such as the Tourism Regionalization Program (TRP) and the tourism map, certifying João Pessoa as an inducing destination. The empirical research was carried out in the second half of 2019, with the adoption of multiple techniques for the production of data, such as observation by shadowing, with notes in a field diary, informal conversations, analysis of documents and interviews with annex - which is of a technique proposed here for PBS research. The interpretative part of the data was based on Bispo's framework (2017), supported by Garfinkilian ethnomethodology and the theoretical framework elaborated. The research revealed MTD as a political field, in which the Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, capital and ideology were associated. Therefore, the general objective of the thesis was to explain the barriers in the creation of interprofessional knowledge in tourism from the interprofessional work carried out at MTD. As specific objectives: i. Characterize tourism as practice in the political field of MTD based on its daily activities; ii. Report the performance of interprofessional work at MTD; iii. Identify heterogeneous elements related to the existing barriers in the creation and application of interprofessional knowledge in tourism from MTD; iv. Conceptualize interprofessional knowledge in tourism in a political field. The results show that tourism is an organizing practice at MTD, consisting of activities that allow interprofessional work, which rarely generates interprofessional knowledge. This low generation was because there are barriers: the political nature of MTD; divergence in the interests of the agents (individuals, agencies and institutions) that act in favor of tourism, the few influence that tourism has on political electoral criteria; slowness in the execution of actions and projects. Among other elements that make up the habitus that characterizes this political field. As conclusion, it was found that in the creation of interprofessional knowledge in a political field, politics (not only as partisan) is a regulator of relations because there are different positions, interests, capitals that direct the rules of the game. That this creation requires overcoming conflicts and the establishment of a common denominator over which interests must converge so that João Pessoa's tourism can reach its potential. Thus, a contribution of this research is to show municipal managers and professionals in public positions in tourism that politics is not an obstacle to the development of interprofessional knowledge in tourism, but rather the dependence of agents on generative structures that reinforce limiting behaviors.