Abstract

SALLES, Renata de Leorne. Resignify to renew: New uses, representations and resistances in Praça Sete, Belo Horizonte. Forum Sociológico [online]. 2021, n.38, pp.25-34.  Epub Aug 12, 2021. ISSN 0872-8380.  https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.9654.

From the last decades of the 20th century, when the preservation of cultural heritage gained relevance in Brazil, new urban policies emerged to recover historical centers considered degraded, assigning them functions linked to culture. Soon, new cultural equipment arose in locations with the potential to attract more affluent people, according to the government. So, we researched the revitalization of Cine Brasil, an old street cinema located in the central area of Belo Horizonte, in Praça Sete, whose consequent reopening as a cultural space in 2013 was an experience of renewal through the resignification of heritage. Taking into account the representations captured in the field, obtained through qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, it was possible to verify the effects of the new equipment, allowing to list changes and permanences in the local dynamics of the renovated public space. The results showed that the circumstantial presence of new users who consume culture is not being able to change the popular uses already consolidated in the region.

Keywords : culture; cultural heritage; central areas; urban renewal; representations.

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