They were taken aback that we were going to the square to read: political uses of Praça do Esplanada by the collective Perifala! in Vila Irmã Dulce (Teresina, PI)

Abstract

Based on ethnographic research, this article analyzes activities carried out by the study and political training group Perifala! (Peri) active mainly in the region of Vila Irmã Dulce and Praça do Esplanada, in Teresina, and relates these activities to his fight for the right to the city. Its starting point is the notion that the group negotiates meanings of the city and urban revolution in its social and inventive practices, of occupation and political use of Praça do Esplanada, and that these are carried out from its place as a collective subject on the outskirts of the city , capitalist society, the academic and social environment. Therefore, this work aims to analyze how Perifala! tensions the hegemonic narratives of the peripheral, urban occupations and public spaces in their social and discursive practices that enunciate expressions such as the deracialization of society and when it asserts that subjects from the peripheries are also political subjects.