Feira livre de Dourados: território e identidade

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the redefinition of the locality of Free Fair on Street Cuiabá to the then Chácara Rigotti, in Dourados-MS. For this purpose, we take as an object of research / analysis the Free Fair and its territorial, symbolic and historical identity, trying to measure its developments an d its articulation as the municipality's tradition. This study was based on a qualitative research strategy, of an exploratory nature, through a field research that aims to investigate the perception of marketers, customers and residents before the history and redefinition of the relations of the Free Fair de Dourados and their territory. It is known that the Free Market contemplates relations and productive, social, political, cultural, indentity, traditional, etc. that translate into materiality of the territory. This dynamic is permeated by contradictions, continuities and discontinuities, transformations and changes, which allow us to interpret it under different analytical biases. In this sense, we are guided in an attempt to understand the process of t erritorialization-deterritorialization reterritorialization of the Free Fair de Dourados, considering exploring the actors of this reality, highlighting, yearnings and improvements, difficulties and conditions from the existing relationship between the producers of the Fair, customers, public authorities and marketers. These elements compose the Fair, dynamize and materialize creating the social relations of the Free Fair territory and the location, flows, colors, smells and flavors are placed as processes of transformation of urban space and redefinition of the reality of social relations, thus, the work aims to measure the results and interferences of this process for the reality and the present of the territory: Free Fair.