Brodagem, morality and muscle: street workout in Salvador
Body; Masculinities; Moral; Sport; Urban Space
This ethnography describes the activities of fitness and calisthenics groups in public spaces in Salvador da Bahia. I argue that the relationships between “training brothers” are constituted by the occupation and gendering of urban spaces, the apprenticeship of sports techniques for bodily transformations, and the elaboration of moral horizons of respectability. In street workouts, men from a popular neighborhood in Salvador imagine and manufacture not only bodies but a city and a future in which they can live.