Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PATRICIA DOS SANTOS DIAS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PATRICIA DOS SANTOS DIAS
DATE: 26/11/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

IN SEARCH OF A PLACE IN THE CITY: TOPOPHILIAS AND TOPOPHOBIAS OF DEAF PEOPLE - NATAL/RN

KEY WORDS:

Deaf Geography, Deaf Community, Topophilia, Topophobia, City.

PAGES: 212
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

The analysis of the current Brazilian city shows the lack of geographic studies related to the spaces of minorities, being part of this context the deaf. It is known that in recent years of the twentieth century, the deaf have been organizing and strengthening socially through accessibility and inclusion policies, present on the agenda of local, national and international debate. Thus, the mobilization of this group (in person and virtually) for rights manifests itself on different fronts, including the claim of living in the city. So, unlike the realities experienced by the deaf in earlier times, times when deafness was seen as an incapacitating disability, increasingly, we have witnessed a contrary movement to look at the barriers created to prevent the flow of these subjects, their coming and going, their desires and needs. Thus, this thesis is built from the displacement of the disability of the subject to the disability of the city. It is about enunciating the city as a deficient organism to attend the experiences of the deaf, in its multiple faces. Therefore, we seek to understand how the deaf subjects experience the city spaces of Natal/RN, what are the characteristics of the signaling spaces in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) and the places most frequented or not by the deaf, thus seeking to discuss, in a relational perspective, the city deficiencies associated with existing feelings in the deaf, in relation to the places. For this, the dialogue with Yi-Fu Tuan (1980-2012) on topophilia and topophobia is configured in the foundation for the narrative construction, anchored in the daily experiences of the deaf subjects, their connections, disconnections, refusals and expansion. Through the recognition of the movements from inside to outside and outside to inside, experienced by the deaf in the urban environment, a Geography is configured, nuanced in places created and recreated in the ambivalent game of selection, tension, hegemony, heterogeneity, mobility, circulation, communication and spatial technification. Thus, the argumentative arrangement goes through structuring the narrative considering lives, interviews, field research and other secondary sources that will complement the whole discussion of this thesis, built in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The narratives of deaf people's experience of place already reveal a strong degree of dissatisfaction of this subject in relation to different public and private spaces, where it is possible to observe that places are avoided because they do not prove to be inclusive and/or accessible to these people. Moreover, ideas of fragility and spatial discomfort are employed to point out how this subject feels in the city "of the listeners". Therefore, it was observed that these feelings show to be important indicators to be considered in the construction of an understanding of what is an efficient and deficient city in the deaf perspective, in order to make it progressively more inclusive and friendly.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 6350736 - EUGENIA MARIA DANTAS
Interno - 1777712 - ALESSANDRO DOZENA
Interno - 3060741 - HUGO ARRUDA DE MORAIS