Rede social Bela Vista: ativismos urbanos, redes e dinâmicas comunicacionais no Bixiga

Resumo (EN)

We present aspects of the current research on the neighborhood of Bixiga and focus on the actions of a group/collective: the Bela Vista Social Network. Combining forms of action in negotiation with institutional and community logics, the Network articules local/global logics and dynamics that occur in the Bixiga, between entrepreneurs, criative economies and alternative cultural practices, within its limits and possibilities. After discussing historical aspects and the method used (urban “dérives” with ethnographic inspiration), we finish with the Network analyses. We conclude that its practices give clues about elements of urban communicability articulating activism for the right to the city, uses and appropriations of the territories, logics of production and cultural consumption and cosmopolitanism, identities and ways of being together.
Keywords: Bixiga; Urban activism; Territory