O lazer no interior da Amazônia: um estudo com mulheres que coordenam espaços públicos na comunidade de Arapixuna/STM/PA

Abstract

This research allows us to reflect on leisure experiences in a rural community in the municipality of Santarém-PA, in the interior of the Amazon, the community of Arapixuna. The region has a different context from those existing in the urban-industrial area because, in addition to promoting leisure situations specific to the space, it presents a different condition in its political structure, which is the large presence of women leading the public spaces in the community. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to apprehend the sense and the meaning of leisure for women who coordinate social public places, political and or cultural spaces in the community of Arapixuna and, in addition, to perceive the challenges facing in the coordination roles and their personal experience to promote leisure for themselves and to the community. The study developed through the qualitative approach of ethnographic contribution and involved as research procedures, the participant observation, in which the researcher's direct contact with the studied reality is essential; and interactive and in-depth interviews based on guiding axes./ It was adopted the narrative and hermeneutic analysis to interpret the field data production;/ the registers were secured by means of a field diary, audio recordings from the interviewees and registers of images of the spaces and leisure activities, all with the due consent of the interviewees and the coordination of the community, once the research was submitted and approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of IESPES / STM / PA. In this way, it was possible to understand that the challenges of these women who lead public spaces and leisure are permeated by criticism, prejudice and sexual division of work, and community activities are often perceived as the leisure experience by themselves. For them, leisure is understood as a moment of breaking the routine in their lives; in the community it causes movement, based on spontaneous sociability, and plays an important role in various socio-cultural spheres. Therefore, it is possible to think about alternative activities, as well as the construction and reframing of spaces for leisure to the community.