Tieing wires, cartographing places: news, politics and everydaylife in Pelourinho
Meshwork, Discourse, Life Streams, Pelourinho
For being known worldwide, the Historic Center of Salvador – BA has always been in the middle of several speeches. Described in many ways, depending on the interests involved, the Historic Center has many stereotypes who follow it over time. Therefore, this research analyzes, under the Michel Foucault’s Discourse Analysis, the discourse of five famous newspaper circulating in Salvador, within the time period from the decade of 1970’s until the 2000’s. Also analyzes, by the same method, the discourse of five Historic Center residents. In the end, from the place’s understanding as where the life streams encounter, using as base the anthropologist Tim Ingold, we crossed analyzes with this living experiences in the place Historic Center, producing what we call cyclical cartography. This cartography brings notations for reflections about our cities and put us mindful on the ways how the discourses influence the places and resident’s dynamic and vice versa.