Intervenções urbanas e ressignificações no centro de Aracaju : um estudo acerca do Beco dos Cocos

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Passos, Elayne Messias
• Orientador(a): Passos, Elayne Messias
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Antropologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Antropologia urbana; Vida urbana; Aracaju (SE); Criminalidade urbana; Prostituição; Planejamento urbano; Beco dos Cocos (Aracaju, SE)
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: City and town life; City planning; Prostitution
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3159

Aracaju, capital of Sergipe, was inaugurated on March 17, 1855, from a unique architectural design, which structured the city just like a chessboard, with the aim of favoring the wealthier social classes, at the expense of disadvantaged groups excluded from the main spaces of the metropolis. That same historical horizon came the Beco dos Cocos, alleyway which functioned primarily as a transit route for landing and supply of coconuts in the fledgling central trade of Aracaju. In the course of time, the alley became a simple crossing point loads to a bohemian enclave, address famous cabarets, becoming then one of the largest areas of prostitution and drug trafficking of the capital of Sergipe, until become what it is today, almost an open bathroom. The central issue guiding this work is, from a microscopic cut, a category scarcely studied in Urban Anthropology, the alley, analyze and understand a variety of precious objects and questions about the functioning of a city, the relationships that may exist and constitute over a platter, its history, and as such movements reveal the daily life of contemporary urban life. From this premise, this research attempts to explain the aesthetic and social transformations occurring in the Beco dos Cocos, the historical process of marginalization of a place so culturally rich and the consequences of interventions and new meanings in this place and to examine to what extent the presence of Government was instrumental in that. In this context, the study turns to build the story of Beco dos Cocos concomitant building of Aracaju, known by some as the first planned city of the country, in order to reducing the size of the city to the heterogeneous micro, untangling the most images of varied social and cultural life of certain times, to understand the phenomenon and urban forms of sociability in the metropolis.