Ativismos e comunicação urbana: a Rede Social Bela Vista no Bixiga

Resumo (EN)

This paper presents and analyzes aspects of a broader research that studies urban activism in conjunction with cultural activism and its forms of urban communication in the Bixiga region in the central area of São Paulo/Brazil. Through the notions of “urban communication”, “mobilities” and “culture as a resource” as conceptual operators, and the presential and digital fieldwork with ethnographic/cartographic inspiration as a methodology, we focus on the actions of the Bela Vista Social Network collective, in 2018 and 2019 and some of its actions in 2022. We seek to understand how its activities reflect elements of urban communicability, articulating activism for the right to the city, uses and appropriations of territories, logics of contemporary and cosmopolitan cultural production and consumption, identities and ways of being together.
Key words: Bixiga, Activism, Urban communication; city