O cotidiano da juventude do bairro Batalhão em Altos-PI na década de 1990

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the routines of the youth from the Batalhão neighborhood in the city of Altos, Piauí, within the historical context of the 1990s. The research will showcase the practices of people who lived in the neighborhood and other neighboring areas, their socialization spaces, and the group’s subjectivity production. For instance, significant events related to attending parties in the city center and the neighborhood’s influence zone, sports practices, flirting, conflicts, work, study, fear, and for some, behaviors considered rebellious. Data and sources were collected through interviews with group participants and spectators of some of the above events, photographs, occurrence bulletins, and references from other scientific works that discuss youth in altos. The research will reveal the group’s outcome when adult life responsibilities arrive and the consequences of their actions. It will also recover memories of events that triggered the advancement of insecurity feelings related to a portion of the gang, accelerating its dissolution and consequently attributing a bad reputation as troublemakers, rebels, and even dangerous in the neighborhood and city’s imagination, surpassing the peripheral zone’s limits. Keywords: Youth, Conflicts, Routines, Rebellion.