Caminhando por territórios negros: um estudo sobre o processo de turistificação do Bairro Liberdade (SP)

Abstract

The present work seeks to present the relationships between memory, identity, historical cultural heritage and cultural tourism, demonstrating heritage as maintenance and preservation agents of memories and identities of certain social groups. From this, trying to understand which are the black heritages present in Bairro Liberdade, which is located in the Historic Center of the city of São Paulo, analyzing the tourist activity under them. In theoretical terms, it involves a transdisciplinary perspective of texts on memory with Maurice Halbwachs (2003), on identity with Stuart Hall (2014), the different concepts of cultural historical heritage with Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico Artístico Nacional and cultural tourism from the perspective of different authors in the field of tourism. Thus, it aims to identify which heritage and monuments related to black memories are represented by tourist eyes in the region, reflecting on the different approaches that the activity provides from the interests linked to tourist planning. Thus, from the analysis of the touristification process of Bairo Liberdade, it is possible to verify the different actions of tourism in the same territory, considering that currently the region is commercialized touristically while of Japanese origin, but obtains remnants of memories linked to other social groups. Being possible to establish tourism as a tool for the democratization of memories present in space and also as an activity that erases memories and identities of other social groups that do not meet the interests of the public and private sector.