INTERRELATION BETWEEN WORK AND LEISURE

A LOOK AT THE FESTIVITY OF FANS AND THE COLLECTION OF CATADORS IN THE IMMEDIATION OF THE GRÊMIO ARENA

Abstract

We seek to look at the relationship between work and leisure, in the interdependence between fans and collectors, based on an ethnographic survey, carried out in 2018, in the surroundings of Arena do Grêmio, in Porto Alegre/RS, on matchdays. We also seek to describe how this event composes aspects of the lives of residents and non-residents in the surrounding of the Arena. We consider that the multiple and ambiguous territory is configured by the interrelationship between functional strata (fans, merchants, residents, street vendors, money changers, voters, car keepers and collectors). To understand the interrelationship between the party and work, we highlight the conversation with three collectors. When we propose to contemplate more specifically the interrelationship between fans and collectors, we emphasize that work and leisure cannot be considered viable in isolation, so that it is possible to understand the appropriation of the territory investigated in a configurational perspective. We are, therefore, dealing with a specific territory in which the interrelationship between work and leisure is configured by different actors and networks of relationships that we need to highlight in the field of leisure studies. We understand that it is still necessary to broaden perspectives on the inseparability and multiplicity of configurations constituted in the relationship between work and leisure.