Cultural appropriations and reappropriations in Salvador-Ba

About urban spectacularization and the dialectics of malandragem

Abstract

This text seeks, at first, to present an analytical typology about cultural practices, uses and tensions of meanings woven in the context of the experience of urban life in certain spaces of the city of Salvador-BA, during the context of preparation and realization of mega-events of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In this perspective, the work links the theoretical and empirical immersion, carried out within the scope of the doctoral research, with the thematization about the relationships between the logics of urban production and the effects of these processes on the behaviors that experience and (re)signify the uses of spaces. More broadly, the question of cultural practices is interpenetrated by the horizon that moves from the right to the city to the ideals of spectacular cities, expressed above all by the paradigm of creativity. Finally, I propose to reread the relationship between cultural appropriations and reappropriations from the idea of ​​the dialectic of “malandragem”, characterized by Antonio Candido as a formative spectrum of Brazilian culture.