Diários, mapas e mediações : comunicação, cultura e resistência da juventude periférica

Abstract

This doctorate thesis identifies the resistance potencial of cultural-communicative practices undertaken by four (4) juvenile groups from the analysis of expressive materials producted by them named “Diários Criativos” (Creative Journals). The groups “Art’Periferia” (Art’Periphery), Jovens Realistas do Cotidiano (Daily realistic youth), Trama dos Arteiros (Art Makers Plot) e Grupo Jovem Nova Geração (New Generation youth group) are constituted by teenagers and young who express their territorial belonging to four locations which are considered peripheral in the city of Salvador, capital of Bahia State. Those peripheral areas are: Pernambués, Alto do Cabrito, Marechal Rondon and Cosme de Farias. The research conforms as a reflection about the interaction dynamics between those young subjects, their expressive productions, their territorial insertion contexts and the way this articulation implicates in a stance against others operant discourses in the social context.This stance is cultural, communicational and political. The methodological approach is consequence of that perspective of relational interdependence between the production context and the expressive object, expressed in the option for Jesús Martin-Barbero mediation paradigm, and for the map-text proposition, from the tensioning of the journals with official and mediatic texts about youth and periphery. At the end of the investigative route, it’s possible to assert that those Journals showed resistant practices capable of destabilize excludent and prejudiced patterns that try to determine the urban periphery youth.