"Aqui é onde o mundo acontece": periferias urbanas em pauta nas práticas de uma biblioteca comunitária livre

Abstract

In recent years, a multiplicity of cultural practices have been strengthened in the daily lives of the periphery of Fortaleza/CE, mobilized by collective articulations around the organization of soirees, audiovisual productions, street theaters, rolezinhos, festivals, reggae, marginal literature and reading mediations. Among this profusion are the practices of community libraries, which have been working in alliance with youth collectives by proposing art, culture and leisure from periphery to periphery. In addition to being places where people have access to books, games and spaces for socialization, democratization and information sharing, community libraries have been important intercessors of the most distinct cultural practices. This has made it possible for the peripheries to be guided by art and culture, rebelling against hegemonic narratives that set them as a locus of violence, suffering and death. Therefore, we aim to analyze how urban peripheries have been guided by practices carried out by a community library in Fortaleza. To achieve this objective, we have listed three specific objectives, namely: 1) to trace a rhizome of the practices produced by a community library inserted in a peripheral territoriality of Fortaleza; 2) to discuss which shifts to hegemonic narratives about urban peripheries have been produced from the practices of this library and 3) to discuss how the artistic inventions carried out within the library are constituted as a device of re-existence. In relation to theoretical articulations, we start from studies of Social Psychology that have been inclined to themes that involve violence, urban territorialities and notions of resistance/re- existence, weaving connections, among others, with post-structuralist studies and critics of coloniality. Methodologically, we used a proposal for a qualitative approach, specifically the Research-Inter(in)vention. The research site was Livro Livre Curió Biblioteca Comunitário, which, like other libraries of popular initiative, has emerged in the scenario of cultural practices in Fortaleza as a powerful community space for cultural, artistic and political promotion of the margins. The scenes and conversations created from this research-inter(in)vention point out that the practices of Livro Livre Curió dispute and tension the symbolic and concrete borders that fragment the city; problematize the romanticization of the precariousness of life in peripheral contexts and invent multi-territorialities through friendship policies that guide urban peripheries through echoes of youth, LGBTQIA+, black, women and children voices. In addition, these practices have promoted disframing by moving away from “colonial frameworks”, which establish urban peripheries as “territories of not being”, and (re)invent them by guiding them from the denunciations against what coloniality imposes. historically, without, however, failing to announce them as multi-territorialities of love and the future.