Mapeamento das intencionalidades socioambientais de ocupação da Praia da Cinelândia em Aracaju-se

Abstract

Urban beaches are potent spaces for socio-environmental interactions. In them there are potentialities that arouse multiple interests of shoppers and traders, which results in processes of occupation (transitory and permanent), in addition to encouraging the appropriation of public spaces, through the installation of structures that reflect the forms of socio-environmental organization that are established. with nature in the urban environment. The present study aims to present the result of the mapping of the socio-environmental occupation dynamics existing on Cinelândia beach, in Aracaju-SE. Therefore, it is assumed that the beach is socially shaped as a space between imaginaries of “wild nature” and the urban environment (the edge) and that people, when occupying this space, are governed by physical and symbolic structures that affect these processes of meaning. This is a bibliographic, field study, with a visit in locus, filling in a field diary and photographic record and with a phenomenological, qualitative, inductive approach, in order to understand the phenomena related to the occupation processes established on the Cinelândia beach. The research corpus is based on the transcript resulting from interviews with regulars and traders who occupy spaces on the beach and notes in field diaries resulting from direct observations at the locus. The data were submitted to quantitative analysis (consolidation of socioeconomic data) and qualitative, through the application of the method of Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) of Roque Moraes and principles of social cartography, with the elaboration of metatext and exposition of the understanding of the studied phenomenon through of pictures, photographic images and reflections from the method. The selection of research subjects resulted from a field visit. The regulars were chosen randomly, ending the selection cycle after the saturation of responses, totaling 14 regulars interviewed. Traders, both from the sand strip and from the area adjacent to the parking lot, were randomly selected and interviewed as accepted, resulting in 8 interviews, with a limitation of traders who argued that they were unavailable to respond at the moment. As a result, the following stand out: (a) the process of occupation of Cinelândia occurs differently, according to day and time, throughout the week, with alternation between various “tribes”; (b) there is an evident tension over the limitation of access to the low-income population, with notable symbolic gentrification; (c) with regard to traders, there is an attempt by the government to limit the occupation process, however, in a disorganized way, with attempts to create barriers and symbolic expulsion represented by difficulty in accessing traders to the beach; commercial structures are transported to the beach daily at the beginning and end of commercial activities; (d) the formulation of specific public policies for the management of spaces on the Cinelândia beach, especially with regard to commercial occupations on the beach, can be representative as an important process of environmental education in which different actors who attend the beach could be involved in the decisions that will have a direct influence on the socio-environmental dynamics of this space.