Discursos e estratégias identitárias entre os praticantes da capoeira no Centro Cultural Brasil-Moçambique nos espaços de apresentação

Abstract

The study analyzes the identity dynamics among capoeira practitioners at the Centro Cultural Brasil-Moçambique. It seeks to understand the discourses and identity strategies mobilized by capoeira practitioners at the CCBM in each presentation space to legitimize their practice in Mozambique. In Mozambique, capoeira is seen as a practice and an element from outside Mozambican culture and its practice takes place in a context in which the Mozambican government creates mechanisms, cultural policies, events to promote and value the so-called traditional Mozambican culture, as an instrument of affirmation and enhancement of national identity and culture. Thus, our interest is to understand how capoeira practitioners position themselves, legitimize the practice and insert themselves into the local domain using a global practice. In understanding the identities of capoeira practitioners, the analysis was central: of the spaces of presentation of capoeira shows or games, issues related to being and not capoerista and the speeches and identity strategies mobilized by practitioners to affirm and legitimize the practice of capoeira in Mozambique by negotiating acceptability in locale global domains. The study shows that capoeira practitioners at the CCBM strategically seek the symbols that lend more meaning to their needs in the present to legitimize their practice according to the social space in which they are inserted. Capoeiristas move in a field of glocal urban possibilities, therefore simultaneously local and urban where, according to their identity projects use identity elements that suit them in each context and ignoring the other institutionalized elements.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)