Territorialities of Road crazies in public spaces in João Pessoa/PB, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Mirelli Albertha de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Maia, Doralice Sátyro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ateliê Geográfico
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/atelie/article/view/57621

Popularly known as hippies, the nomadic craftsmen, who call themselves road crazies, express a culture that evolves entirely on the streets, are constantly changing from one city to another, and establish themselves as nomads. In every city they go, they settle in public spaces and create the Crazies Rock, a place where they make handicrafts and build their habitat. The purpose of this article is to characterize the Crazies Rock in João Pessoa/PB, located on the beach of Tambaú, a public space appropriated by road crazies. The ethnographic approach and the occupation’s cartography showed that the Crazies Rock is a territory, or more specifically, a nanoterritory (SOUZA, 2013). Although it has no buildings, the Crazies Rock has codes, trails, and invisible boundaries, which entails changes in meanings and expressions of the space, as well as the construction of the road crazies’ identity and values, also transforming the Crazies Rock into one Place. Keywords:  Road crazies. Appropriation.  Public urban space. Territory.