Práticas marítimas esportivas em Fortaleza: territorialidades do surfe e bodyboard

Abstract

The transformations in the thinking and relationship of human beings with nature from the turn of the twentieth century portray the emergence of new leisure and activities, in addition to the demand for places that enhance the environment of the places visited and the consumption of natural and cultural goods. These renovations create new territorialities, more precisely in coastal areas. Fortaleza is one of the examples of adaptation and metamorphosis of the territory. The new and old territorial forms cohabit and establish the new realities of consumption. The maritime wave sports practices, such as surfing and bodyboarding, find in these places an ideal space to develop, which has led to the modification and adaptation of the territory and the lifestyle of the surrounding communities, in a logic of innovation and maintenance of tradition. In this transition from fishing territory to summer activity, Fortaleza is gradually becoming a beach and surfing territory. It is understood that the new practices maritime cities are a vector of urbanization and dynamizer of the cities, beaches and especially of the surroundings of the coastal locations that receive these exercises, believing in different tourist products in the sun and the beach, according to the potentialities present in the territory, the sea, enabling the economic evolution of the spaces and a true door of opportunities for young people in the community or those who do not have access to these activities. Therefore, it was perceived that modern maritime practices in Fortaleza proved to be one of the great examples in which, through the popular mobilization of the city's residents, they promoted the creation of territorialities and particularities in each beach zone through coastal spatial change, influencing and dynamizing the urbanization of the beaches, in addition to promoting and generating a source of income.