Rupturas do cotidiano no organizar da cidade: descontinuidades e continuidades provocadas pela pandemia da Covid-19 e a organização espacial da rua da lama, em Vitória, ES

Abstract

The research aimed to understand the reconfiguration dynamics of organizational spaces in the city of Vitória (ES) through practices reorganization by subjects, motivated by ruptures in daily life related to Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, I adopted the theoretical perspective of practices based on Certeau’s theory (1998) articulated to the notion of ruptures in everyday life (LEITE, 2010) and knowledge of urban organizational processes in Organizational Studies. I carried out a qualitative study adopting the techniques of semi-structured interview and non-participant observation, in addition to documentary sources. The interpretation of the findings was based on five analytical codes generated: “daily disruptions”; “social, political and organizing challenges in managing the crisis”; “negotiate and articulate”; “recursive aspect of practices” and “spatial (re)construction of Rua da Lama”. The results show how the different practices, interests and uses manifested in public spaces reconfigured daily life and space in the city in contexts of rupture. Starting from the specific context of the pandemic, it was possible to understand that appropriations, transgressions and subversions by different subjects and social groups motivate the development of new strategies by public management, thus enabling the emergence of new tactical astuteness by practitioners of Lama, and so on. More than a rupture in practices caused by the identified ruptures, it was possible to identify and describe a context of reconfiguration of practices, marked by continuities and discontinuities in permanent tension. I hope that the findings can contribute to the expansion of discussions around urban organizational processes, reinforcing a procedural view of everyday life, by showing how micro and macro aspects, strategies and tactics, everyday life and city are interdependent in their (re)production, even in situations of rupture – thus expanding the field of organizational studies on urban themes, in particular those anchored in the Theory of Practices.