Estacionamento no C4: sociabilidades deslocadas no estacionamento do hipermercado Carrefour

Abstract

This work presents the results of an investigation that sought to identify the urban phenomena responsible for the growing number of young adults and adults who use the Carrefour hypermarket parking lot, located in the southern part of the city of Natal / RN, as a place of socialization for activities related to leisure . The objective was to identify the causes of these choices, as well as to demonstrate which groups attend the place and what activities they perform in this space. As methodological tools, quantitative and qualitative methods were used with questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and direct observation. The results obtained point to the urban violence that has increased in recent years, the need to seek new spaces and safe leisure options, as well as the search for the experience of sociability with peers as a strategy to resist the problems caused by adult life. Moreover, we find several youths, mostly from other regions of the city and from Natal, with differences in social class, income and schooling, but who coexist predominantly in a harmonious way in the parking lot. In addition the space is also frequented by groups of adults as leisure option, we highlight here the groups of turbinated cars, the 'ships' and those that look for the area to develop physical activities.