Abstract
The article is the result of an ethnography carried out on a motorcycle club located in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, called the Brotherhood Children of Freedom, and seeks to understand how the members of the motorcycle club construct the category of place in different micro spaces through their greater symbols, such as the brotherhood headquarters, the badge in their vests and the trips through the roads under formation. The city is considered as a field of analysis, from the overlapping spaces and plurality individual group. In this context, it describes the identity constructions among the Brotherhood's members, their obligations and restrictions in new arrangements related to those appropriate spaces and transformed into place. It also shows how, in relations with others inside or outside the city, spaces of different scales are appropriate by the members of the Brotherhood by means of their symbols, values, beliefs and identity, to which systems of significance are attributed, such as the very notion of belonging and tradition of the Brotherhood Children of Freedom.
Highlights
City, place, space and identityBy definition, the term ‘place’ refers to numerous interpretations
As a group is constituted and maintained in a place and time by the construction of its identity, cultural dynamics and traditionality, this article describes the recording of observations, informal conversations, behaviors, practices, feelings, habits, gestures and expressions that are translated into social representations linked to the customs of members of a motorcyclist group called the Children of Freedom Brotherhood
Mesquita & Maia [9] in their study about urban tribes, about the motor clubs in the city of Goiânia, its relations with that city and among the other groups constituted under the aegis of control over social public spaces, bring important summary about the origin of the motorcycle clubs, whose beginning refers to the years of 1940 in the USA
Summary
Place, space and identityBy definition, the term ‘place’ refers to numerous interpretations. As a group is constituted and maintained in a place and time by the construction of its identity, cultural dynamics and traditionality, this article describes the recording of observations, informal conversations, behaviors, practices, feelings, habits, gestures and expressions that are translated into social representations linked to the customs of members of a motorcyclist group called the Children of Freedom Brotherhood. Lopes apud Martins [2] states that motorcycling is a complex and gigantic universe, involving many stereotypes. He adds: "many consider it an addiction and a way of life"
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