Cotidiano e vida socioambiental em tempos de covid-19: devir, interafetação e auto-organização

Abstract

We reconstruct the history of the São Francisco Community and its residents, from its origins to the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this daily life, which encompasses the history of this environment and the beings who inhabit it, we adopted bibliographical reviews, ethnobiography, field diary records of residents' experiences and informal conversations, and nine life stories recorded through interviews. Within this tangled web, set in the peripheral region of the Maranguapinho River basin in Fortaleza, Ceará, we narrate the life sequences, gathering, along the way, fundamental elements to understand how certain socioenvironmental conditions and specific interaffectations become milestones and markers of vulnerability. Initially, we portrayed the community environment, considering aspects such as vegetation and streams, non-human animals, climate, houses, walls and graffiti, dirt roads and accumulated trash, occupations and income, transportation and food, the institution of family, neighborhood, church, and public facilities, as well as the synchronous relationships between these levers in ways of life. Next, based on the stories of those who died from COVID-19, we delve deeper into the trajectories of the selected residents, through their own accounts or those of their closest relatives, the objects they owned, and their photo albums. Throughout the chapters, we discuss the particularities of being an adult and a young person in the community, also briefly mentioning other stories that crossed our path. Without seeking structural determinants, but rather contingencies that become incidentally appropriate and meaningful, our qualitative effort aims to contribute by suggesting that the particularities between biographies and environmental history be considered in future pandemic contexts. As more general conclusions, we infer, by contrasting the context of COVID-19 with the rest of life's sequences, that a process of self- organization of the residents' daily lives is driven by the become of nature and the awareness of finitude. This self-organization is theorized as a fundamental dynamic of the ontology of live beings. Finally, among the contextual conclusions of this study, we highlight three central aspects: the renewed importance of affection and bonds; the strengthening of the symbolic role of children and dreams as expressions of hope and sacrifice; and the renewal of pride in everyday life, raising the values of a dignified life.