Neither Here nor There: Walking through the Transformation of Pium with the Graphic-Visual
Walking; Urban Transformation; Graphic-Visual; Landscape; Capitalocene.
This dissertation seeks to highlight aspects of the transformation of the coastal and peri-urban district of Pium/RN, through a graphic-visual approach—integrating drawing, photography, video, and collage—emphasizing the relational and the multisensorial. Walks through the territory, conversations with its inhabitants, and the production of sensitive images aim to recognize flows and elements of the social, cultural, and ecological changes in the landscape, intensified by real estate speculation and accelerated urbanization in the Capitalocene. The methodology combined a multi-sited approach (Marcus, 1995) with Tim Ingold’s graphic- anthropology (2015) and Sarah Pink’s sensory and multimodal ethnography (2015), while also engaging with Anna Tsing’s environmental-ecological perspective (2022). The study suggests the importance of attending to this moment of transformation in Pium, as well as reflecting on ways of being, sensing, and narrating in ethnography, underscoring the potential of engaging with image.