Discourses, Organizative Practices and Graffiti in Belo Horizonte
Keywords:
City. Organizative Practices. Discourse. Graffiti. Urban Management.Abstract
The city has traditionally been viewed in the Administration under the functionalist perspective, to be understood as professional field or object of public administration and urban management. However, studies that deal with the cities in a non-functionalist perspective has become increasingly applicant mainly from a vision that focuses on urban complexity and evokes the organized social life of oppressed individuals and groups in different social environments. In this article, we analyze discourses that guide organizational practices related to graffiti in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), which was done through a qualitative study based on discourse analysis. Apart from research in official documents on government actions to combat graffiti, individual in-depth interviews were conducted with nine subjects, between municipal administrators responsible for combating graffiti, individuals, civil society participants of the actions of municipal project, and representatives of graffiti from Belo Horizonte. Data analysis was performed by French discourse analysis, in which we sought to identify and analyze issues and discursive elements in script consisting of: i) lexical selections; ii) semantic paths; iii) interdiscursivity; iv) major discourses; v) linguistic reflection and refraction; vi) defended and fought ideological aspects; and vii) discursive positions in relation to the hegemonic discourses in society. Main results suggest that the city government directs representations as also combat graffiti is pressed to face the phenomenon according to the various ways of doing, by which prevail control instruments over the organizative practices of city and establishing sociourban agents of strategic legitimation. We conclude that the public administration is re-signified by different social actors, in particular by the taggers, who adopt a kind of picho ethics, which antagonizes the program of city hall, the police conduct and the dominant thinking on the graffiti and taggers, manifesting their position through graffiti .
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