Entre as lajotas do Monte Serrat : narrativas e materialidades na construção da cidade em Florianópolis.

Abstract

The Monte Serrat community, located in the central Florianópolis, Brazil, has been noted in the past decades for processes of organization in which the production of identity narratives, conflicting with the official ones, can’t be seen apart of its urbanity’s production itself. Historically formed by black, socially vulnerable families who occupied the hillside of the Morro da Cruz since the 1920s, Monte Serrat is noticeable for the presence in the day-by-day of a past responsible by a culture of resistance, solidarity and autonomy. Ethnographic and diachronic interactions with the social dynamics within the community allow us to realize forms by which the enlightenment of forms of living in the city that are usually delegitimized by the official discourse, specially through the mediation of entities such as the Scholl of Samba, the Church and the Community Council, has been participated of achievements which can be seen in the very materiality of the neighbourhood, including houses, collective buildings, public spaces and infrastructure. In this way, Monte Serrat has been able, throughout the construction of narratives based on the interpretation of the past, to be protagonist of the territory’s construction itself, not always according to the planning legitimated by the official narratives, in a continuous process of city-making.