Mercado Público de Pelotas no País das Maravilhas: uma etnografia sobre a pluralidade narrativa de um patrimônio em disputa

Abstract

The narrative constructions that condense stories of the city talk about stories of lives and experiences that compose senses of city. In considering the official narratives as a way of thinking about other possibilities of meaning and readings of the urban space, it is possible to understand that the built cultural historical heritage, institutionalized by the public authority, is reconstructed in several dimensions, from the policies of requalification of them, in relation with the groups that use the space. The altered dynamics create other possibilities of action of the social actors, of heterogeneous groups that are not necessarily passive to the decisions of the powers of the State. But unlike, it strengthens disputes over the representation and use of these spaces. They are expressions of nonviolent conflict and resistance, of negotiations that reveal the power games and the various forms of inhabiting the city. Thus, the city is imagined and created beyond its administrative boundaries or social erasures. The uses given to the architecture built in the past are redefined by the dynamics of present and its process are never the same. Nor does it end in the present, but it is drawn in lines for different futures with each new narration. These issues were reflected in the forms in which the way of life of citizens who attend the Public Market in Pelotas (RS) are narrated. That they have knowledge about the legal devices to fight and claim rights of use of the city in the absence of the constant attempts to sanitize the public leisure spaces currently geared to Tourism