CAPOEIRA IN THE SPACES OF SALVADOR:

TERRITORIES OF RESISTANCE IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE CITY

(20TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST TWO DECADES OF THE 21st CENTURY)

ABSTRACT

In any case, the contextualization of the debate listed in the text is anchored under the phenomenon of expansion of capoeira in urban areas, continuing its characterization as a corporal practice, cultural resistance, revealing territories of socialization and promotion of leisure in the city. However, considering the African roots of the cultural manifestation, its propagation from the public areas of the Bahian metropolis and its arrival to closed spaces, our problem in question emerges: how capoeira spread diachronically throughout Salvador and what spaces it currently occupies from the headquarters of the city groups? Based on this problem, the objective is to describe the cartography of capoeira in Salvador, from its roots in relevant moments of capoeira culture in the course of the 20th century and in the first two decades of the 21st century. A bibliographical research was carried out, emphasizing political and social factors that occurred since the beginning of the 30's that extended through the 20th century until the beginning of the 21st century, metamorphosing the meanings incorporated into the culture of capoeira. The cartography constructed in the text exposes part of the urban fabric of capoeira in the multi-territorial scenario of Salvador Contemporânea (schools, gyms, public spaces, among other locations) based on a compilation by the Gregório Foundation of the headquarters of the groups in the city in 2015. a contextualization of geographical space is built in the zoning of Salvador, as a possibility to establish communication with other fields related to the discussion. This refers to the problematization of cartography as an instrument of socio-spatial analysis by displaying the territorial resistance of capoeira that is propagated by its spreading and rooting in the spaces of the city. It is concluded that considering the social factors and meanings of capoeira in Bahian society from the 1930s onwards, we find that capoeira is widespread in all areas of Salvador, present in pedagogical practices, identified as a struggle and as an instrument for the promotion of leisure in the territories of his teaching, inscribed as emerging spaces in contemporary times. As a bodily experience, it circulates around the city when experienced in the squares, streets, square parties and beaches that make capoeira a hallmark of Salvador's identity. These are situations that confirm its characterization as spatial resistance, because it is marked in the most varied places of the Bahian metropolis: schools, gyms, clubs, residents' associations, urban social centers, private spaces, among other establishments. and situations that bequeath the culture of capoeira in the city from the institutionalized spaces for its teaching in Salvador. Created in the city and distributed throughout the 20th century and in the first two decades of the 21st century, these venues can be understood as territories of resistance that bequeath the culture of capoeira in the city.

Keywords: Capoeira; Territories; Resistance; Leisure; Salvador.