Collective experiences on the life of adolescents in Morro Capixaba

Authors

  • Ana Paula Rabello Lyra University of Vila Velha, Brazil
  • Angelina Altoé Noronha
  • Raquel Corrêa Mesquita Vila Velha University (UVV), Brazil

Keywords:

Adolescents, Social vulnerability, Social exclusion, Participatory workshop

Abstract

This study presents the results of a collaborative process to understand the daily lives of adolescents in the Capixaba Slums, a community whose population exceeds the capacity of the local city management to provide inclusion as established by the City Statute (Law nº. 10.257/2001). The social inequality present in this community contrasts with the surrounding neighborhoods and reflects a condition in which fear and vulnerability afflict the most fragile. In this setting, where homicide rates are increasing, adolescents are the focus of controversial debates regarding the criminal majority while they suffer and reinvent themselves despite the reality of their daily life. This research is particularly concerned with understanding how these adolescents live and relate to this scenario, using workshops developed in partnership with local teachers and pedagogues of their schools as a strategy. The participants construct a vision about the reality of this daily life and reflect on their meanings. The results, supported by direct observation of local conditions, confirm the existence of physical and social vulnerability. Nonetheless, the daily life of adolescents presents an apparent normality, limited to local rules, of common knowledge of those who live in the communities.

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Author Biographies

Ana Paula Rabello Lyra, University of Vila Velha, Brazil

She is an architect, Master in City, Safety and Health, and Professor at the University of Vila Velha. She is the leader of the research group "Urban Dignity" and a collaborator of the research group "Urban Landscape and Inclusion". She studies Planning and Design of Public Spaces, Physical-Environmental and Social Aspects of the Urban and Regional Planning, Vitality.

Angelina Altoé Noronha

She is a social scientist, Master in Public Safety. She studies the spatial vulnerability of adolescents in situations of social risk.

Raquel Corrêa Mesquita, Vila Velha University (UVV), Brazil

She is an architect. Researcher at the University of Vila Velha. She is a member of the research groups "Urban Dignity" and "Urban Landscape and Inclusion", of the University of Vila Velha. She studies security through urban design of cities.

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Published

2018-12-10

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 17 (2018): V!17 Parti.cipate+Co.llaborate vol. 1

Section

Tapete