Abstract
Spatial practices and resistance processes play an important role in the organization of a city. In this context, we propose a study aimed at understanding the spatial practices of ruptures imbricated in the process of resistance manifested in the kidnapping of an arts organization, the April Exhibition (Salão de Abril), which is the most important art exhibition in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. To this purpose, we used a mobile ethnography approach to single out some of the spatial practices regarding the arts organization under study. The main results reveal a network of rupture practices, which is intertwined with resistance processes in a dynamic of constitutive mutuality. This network highlights the kidnapping as a bridge to reach and include different spaces of the city that had not been practiced by the former organizers. Thus, the research contributes to an enlargement of the interlaced debate of practices, space, ruptures and resistance in the contexts of the city organizing and the Management and Organizational Studies.
Highlights
Spatial practices and resistance processes play an important role in the organization of a city
In the light of this interlaced debate in the context of cities, we propose a study aimed at understanding the spatial practices of ruptures imbricated in the process of resistance manifested in the kidnapping of an arts organization
We present the main practices from our analysis that represent spatial practices of ruptures
Summary
Spatial practices and resistance processes play an important role in the organization of a city. We propose a study aimed at understanding the spatial practices of ruptures imbricated in the process of resistance manifested in the kidnapping of an arts organization, the April Exhibition (Salão de Abril), which is the most important art exhibition in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil To this purpose, we used a mobile ethnography approach to single out some of the spatial practices regarding the arts organization under study. On the other hand, Dale and Burrell (2008) emphasize that space and place have an intimate and intertwined set of connections, both discursive and material In this line of discussion, Beyes and Steyaert (2012) propose an alternative route to bring space back into MOS (Kornberger & Clegg, 2004), stressing the concept of spacing based on the performative approach, which guides the understanding of spatial organization in relation to heterogeneous practice configurations
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