A “rolê” around the town: youth movements and spacial disputes on the coastside of Salvador da Bahia
Salvador; youth movements; coastside; groupings;Young; peripheries
The thesis has the objective of apprehend the forms of urban movements of young residents from the outskirts of Salvador - Ba. Through the construction of a “multilocal” ethnography, we followed their trajectories with them, we were in the midst of their experiences of occupation and appropriation of the city's spaces. To do so, we started from points along the Atlantic coast, more specifically, from the beachfronts located in the neighborhoods of Barra, Rio Vermelho and Itapuã. The thesis revealed that more than stretches of the Atlantic beachfronts we were talking about sub-spaces (edges) with particular characteristics. In other words, there is an edge as a growth vector from the end of the 19th century and several edges when looked at more closely. The particularities found in each edge showed us specific relational arrangements among young people, so when we talk about "flexible groups" we are referring to youth practices that occur in a more temporary, itinerant and crossed way with a greater diversity of people and when we talk about “customary groupings” refer to routine associations, endowed with intimate ties and conflicts. Both types of relationship are characterized by fluidity in the arrangement of young people; there are no restrictions and internal rules that make them a closed group.