Gênero continua a ser o campo de batalhas: juventude, produção cultural e a reinvenção do espaço público em São Paulo

Abstract

Youth groups and their artistic interventions are changing the character of the public space in São Paulo. A significant proportion of the new cultural producers come from the peripheries. Through their activities, they not only affirm their existence in the city and assert their right to use its spaces, but also start to master the production of representations. No longer represented by others who used to dominate the production of signs, young people from the peripheries now force their own representations onto the city. Thus, they destabilize the previously established system of signs for cultural production, social relations, and rules for the use of public space dominated by the upper classes. These transformations are substantial, but not without deep contradictions. One of the most salient of them is the reproduction of gender inequalities.