A invenção da praia dos crush: representações sobre sociabilidades juvenis numa praia em Fortaleza/CE

Abstract

Since 2016 the Praia dos Crush, a stretch of Praia de Iracema located on the east coast of the capital at ceara, has been constituted as an important point of youthful leisure and, despite having a diverse audience, those who are most seen in its sands and sea are young residents of the outskirts. In this sense, the debate that we propose to make in this work is to analyze how the passage between Ponte dos Ingleses and Espigão da João Cordeiro it was invented from a symbiosis between the representations that began to circulate about it and the uses what it began to have for the peripheral youth of Fortaleza. For this, we resorted to a diverse methodology, whose main tools were ethnography in the space of beach, between May 2018 and August 2019, just like the junction with a digital sociology, in order to learn the social relationships that based on a discussion about the experience of being in the Praia dos Crush made possible a series of representations about it. The material of this research is dated from 2016 until 2019. From a socio-anthropological perspective, giving the sociology of everyday life the proper importance in understanding youth groups and their practices in urban spaces was that this work became possible. The ―pirangueiros‖, main subjects of this research, present themselves in an open and relational urban space, that puts them in contact with different groups. It caught our attention here as the city of Fortaleza has, over the years, trying to exclude from its urban scenes those who do not fit into aesthetics and behaviors previously defined as acceptable by a population slice that wants to distinguish itself from others. Finally is that why we talk about a invention of Praia dos Crush, be localizated in the neighborhood that attracts tourists, and beyond one of the most valued in capital, these young people there are able to impose and to keep an appointment repeatedly checked, demonstrating how the right to acess the city pass by a territory dispute. So, the pirangueiros subverted a usual beach uses of Praia de Iracema when at Praia dos Crush started to organize an open-air parties with substance use, love dates and meet with friends. A vibe experienced on the beach sands is a result of an intensities mix, results of approximation between body and city, in moments when smells, sounds, movements, that what see and feels comes in harmony.