Acolher e alienar: pistas e ficções sobre urbanismo, cidade, turismo e saúde mental

Abstract

Two figures are opposed throughout this transdisciplinary research, represented by the madman and the tourist. Both of them have a deviant character from the expected behavior, social standards and urban planning, as they exceed the thresholds that shape ways of making, existing and relating to the city. Often disturbing and out of place, the madman and the tourist provoke sensations when alterity is possible, allowing one to inflect one's view towards a city-subjectivity that is mutually constitutive. In this research, what matters when creating and perceiving connections between the fields of Social Psychology, Urbanism and Tourism, is to investigate how different alienation processes take place in the production of space and how to provide host in this context. Welcoming and alienating, from this perspective, are simultaneous and coexisting actions in the same place of Salvador, the Historical City Center. Two welcoming equipment are defined, the Fera Palace Hotel and the Psychosocial Attention Center - CAPS II Jardim Baiano. Using the cartographic method to connect them, and also to relate the figures wich give meaning to such spaces and equipment, this methodology brings together different ways of apprehending the city (mixing the ability to walk, to stop and to insist while crossing different streets between the hotel and the CAPS). Another instrument through which cartography is worth in this research is the analysis of political discourses through which clues appear indicating understandings about the theme in question. The possibilities of the chosen method are many and, within this, the active vibrating body (Suely Rolnik), attentive and available, is indispensable to think about the city. Finally, the proposal is to open space and invite to "Amaciar Dureza", part of the research in which the fictional narrative helps to immerse in the text and allows a character to lead those interested in a multiple, welcoming and alienating Salvador all at the same time.