Os espaços obscuros da cidade turística: um estudo preliminar na Praia de Ponta Negra em Natal/RN
Resumo
Palavras-chave: Espaço; Turismo; Representações Sociais
Abstract:
This article possess as objective generality to understand, under the optics of the call “Cultural Geography” and theoretical support auxiliary, the type of existing relation between tourism and urban space, having as focus the social representations after happened the implementation of the activity in these social contexts. One is about a theoretical article, constructed from the problematização on symbolic forms of space segregation, basically through the idea of “cursed city” developed for Sandra Jatahy Pesavento (1997) and of “urbanism of representation”, gift in Célia Ferraz de Souza (1997). The tourist activity under the optics of the resident if constitutes as the focus of these space alterations and the form as these changes generate in imaginary social the images of the “obscure one” in determined spaces for some social groups, in special those that if had become (supposedly) after segregated the emergency of the activity. The Beach of Ponta Negra, located in Natal, RN, is the object of motivation and preliminary inquiry of this briefing work.
Key-words: Space; Tourism; Social Representations