A geografia do agito: emergência e morte de bares e boates na cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

The current urban reorganization of João Pessoa is characterized by the interruption in its housing development model, making possible, through the infrastructure and equipments installation, the going up of some spaces and the going down of others. This way, the development process is day-by-day making changes in the use of the land, giving support for the space specialization. The Research showed that the city expansion and reorganization directly interfered in the migration of bars and discos, taking the entertainment areas to the seashore, mainly, from the 80 s on. Etnografando those entertainment areas, we identified the many ways of living the city life through the social attitudes and the behaving of specific groups. We assume that understanding the limitation process of new bars and discos means to understand that regular relations between people and/or groups of people leave in the territory unique marks, which come from the resistance strategy to make it clear the citizen city right, that is, the permanent possession. In this context, It was also possible to see how the homosexuals as individuals themselves, having their own identity, formed their territories and territorialidades in a local scale.