LEISURE, YOUTH AND SOCIABILITIES IN OURO PRETO: APPROPRIATIONS OF SPACES OUTSIDE THE HISTORICAL CENTER

Abstract

From the understanding that Ouro Preto youths are multiple and access to leisure is not equal, issues such as the experience of alterity, the empowerment of participants and the occupation of public spaces came to light. Social cartography and semi-structured interviews were the methodologies used.It was identified that most leisure experiences take place in communities, outside the historic center of the city, and some lines of flight, processes of resistance and freedom and aestheticization of oneself in their playing bodies, were found. Of a qualitative nature, this research enters the universe of the Ouro Preto youth, investigating the relational processes, the identity traits, the belonging and the engagement with social micropolicies based on the leisure activities that these youngsters are engaged in.