A cidade e seus graffiti: uma etnografia de rua na região portuária da cidade de Pelotas/RS

Abstract

The port region of Pelotas, a city located in the south of Rio Grande do Sul, is particularly profitable in ruins - a legacy of a prosperous industrial pole that began its activities at the end of the 19th century, whose material tracks, still visible, denounce the economic decay that devastated the municipality from the 1970s. The abandoned walls in profusion became graffiti screens, an agent in the constitution of the landscape of this neighborhood, which undergoes considerable urban transformations - either by the implantation and increase of university poles, or by the reactivation of facilities of the city's port. It was in this urban universe, in dialogue with a network of local graffiti artists and considering the interfaces between urban anthropology and visual anthropology, that this research, methodologically grounded in street ethnography, investigated urban art as a phenomenon peculiar to urban transformations landscape of the port region in Pelotas.