Memories of a Peripheral Soirée: Survival and Hope of Cultural Activities and Research in Baixada Fluminense

ABSTRACT:

This article aims to reflect on a specific peripheral cultural production, idealised by one of the authors of this text and realised in Baixada Fluminense, a metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. Situated in an interdisciplinary field of study that combines debates on applied linguistics, anthropology and education, we present performances narrative of peripheral youth constructed by an autoethnographic “we”. We argue that these performances project chronotopes in flux, which challenge dichotomies (central to hegemonic discourses) and point to practices of survival and hope through which these young people reinvent the territory where they live, themselves and project more just and democratic futures for urban spaces.

KEYWORDS:
periphery; transperiphery; youth; autoethnography; Baixada Fluminense