A construção da hospitalidade urbana no centro histórico de São Luís: um estudo de caso da Praia Grande

Abstract

Genealogy analysis of the concept of hospitality. It presents a genealogy of the concept of hospitality from discursive practices that are located in fields such as social, economic and political, highlighting the power relations that are built and emerge through a discursive engineering. It seeks, particularly, to understand how it is woven, historical and discursively, the conception of hospitality in Praia Grande’s neighborhood, in São Luís, Maranhão, from several discursive practices. The neighborhood initially housed the local elite, who built the house of colonial origin, thanks to the development of productive activities in São Luís. After the decadence in economy, the elite left the mansions of the Great Beach, now synonyms of antique. From the 1940s onwards of the twentieth century, preservation policies are proposed in order to promote the place's revitalization, by means of the restoration of the architectonic collection, which makes Praia Grande one of the city’s main postcards. This research is guided by the French Discourse Analysis of the Foucaultian base, anchoring in existing studies in Brazil, guided by Gregolin (2004); Sargentini and Navarro-Barbosa (2004), Fernandes (2008), and researchers who have the São Luís' city as study's object. Based on the different discursive places in which the subjects are located, it is proposed to analyze the discursive formations that construct an idea of hospitality on São Luís Historic Center. For that, we analyze statements of a total of 15 (fifteen) interviews with the Secretary of the Municipal Secretariat of Tourism and the Historic Center’s Deputy Mayor; with private sector managers - formal and informal traders in Praia Grande’s neighborhood; with tourists who visited the neighborhood observing in their statements possible constraints that could interfere in the relations that constitute the urban hospitality in the neighborhood of Praia Grande.