Brechas e Fissuras: As Territorialidades dos Cicloativistas no Espaço do Trânsito de Curitiba-PR.

Abstract

This research addresses the spatial practices of cycle activists from Curitiba-PR, seeking to understand how these spatial practices affect the transit space and constitute the territoriality of these individuals. The approach used is that of Qualitative Geography and the information collection tool is the semi-structured interview form. As a method of selecting informants in the research, the “snowball” was used (BALDIN, 2011), which, although it ends up directing the speeches, made sense with the research that dealt with activist and targeted speeches. The collected speeches were analyzed based on the content analysis of (BARDIN, 2011), where categories were selected and worked on according to the proposal of understanding the spatial practices and territorialities of cycle activists in the capital of Paraná. The analysis of the interviews always had as a background the issue of power (HAN 2015; 2018; 2019), this power understood as spatialized power in territories and territorialities. The practices enunciated in the cyclo-activist discourses demonstrated a content of multi-scale territoriality, from the space of the body (LIMA, 2015), from the cycloactive example/presence through micro-territoriality (HEIDRICH, 2013), even the possibility of influence in the Nomospace of transit (GOMES, 2002). The focus on the interpretation of the phenomenon, opened space for the use of authors from different currents, and who dialogue in the text only to the extent of the interpretive capacity of their concepts. Finally, the analysis suggests that cycle-activist spatial practices demand not only segregated spaces, such as bicycle lanes and lanes, but also the possibility of safe sharing of roads and the right to the city (BORJA 2003; LEFEBVRE, 2011), and to achieve these interests, cycloactivists make use of their everyday spatial and territorial practices, thus contributing to the construction of the transit space.