The beach as a place of memory and formation of sociability

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Marcelo Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Vaz, Lilian Fessler, Matos, Madalena Cunha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade - GeAS
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/geas/article/view/19543
• topic: Voleyball; Sociability; Memory; Beach; Copacabana.; Vôlei; Sociabilidade; Memória; Praia; Copacabana.

Introduction: Sport and urban space form a unique binomial. The city as a privileged place for social practices has an important use in sport for the production of memories and for the strengthening of sociability.Methodology: It includes a literature review and field research to observe the events, in addition to the application of questionnaires via virtual environment with amateur players and beachgoers.Results and discussion: Beach stands out as a place of differentiation and conflict, which institutes segregated codes, norms and uses; the beach as a place for mediation of conflicts arising from the intensity of uses that are required for this space and the beach as a place of dispute for space, from work activities to sports and leisure activities. Going to the beach is an intense exercise in socializing.Theoretical and methodological contributions: Highlighting literature and field research as a support for research actions that have landscape, memory and sport as fundamental themes for thinking about the urban space, especially in places where there is use of leisure over time.Conclusions: It is observed that the beach is a place where conflicts and disputes for space occur in an intense way, but the sociability that is formed around such a pleasant environment and focused on recreational and leisure activities also becomes a mark of identity From Rio. Copacabana is a world reference for the volleyball practice, venue for several international championships and for the 2016 Olympics. Thus, the shore is an important public space as a place of leisure and sociability in an urban environment.