Faça você mesmo: a força política do skate em Manaus - AM. Território e poder

Abstract

In a moment that skateboard is being projected – globally – in a way never seen before, it becomes important to reflect about the paradigms created around the skateboard "ride" (rolê), and how those paradigms influenced the way that skateboard is practiced around the world, in Brazil and in Manaus; and how it is inserted in the political, economical, social and cultural relations of the city. This way, through a bibliographical, documental and field research, this work seeks to analyze the political strength of skateboard in Manaus, AM in a dialectical perspective in the period of 1980 decade to 2024. To do so, it was sought to reflect about the identities of skateboard and how this practice is inserted in the power relations of the city-world - sometimes linked to spectacularization, sometimes linked to marginalization. These identities immersed in the field of power, they print in concrete space their territories, fragmented, discontinuous, but articulated. For this reason, by the multiterritoriality, is was possible to put in evidence, not only the existence of multiple territories, but their superposition through the domination of spaces in the concrete sense and through the appropriation in the symbolical sense. The power and territory analyzed here make evident the political character of skateboard and how it acts as a production tool and reinterpretation of spaces, making democratic the access to public spaces and promoting the socialization through cultural events made in and out of the skateparks. Keywords: Skateboard, city, territory, politics, power