Cultural dissonance? the work in Brasília

Abstract

We used the image of the orchestra to consider the meaning of dissonance and its variations in the complex understanding of the informal Brasilia, in the investigation of the work and its manifestations in a cultural bias. We consider that, in the daily work, insight and sensitivity are aligned to resize the dissonance as an arrangement of the diversity of doing and thinking in society. It is this dissonance that permits the merging of different types of work that, although stratified on a scale of values well defined by hegemonic sectors, gives us the social dynamics, embedded in history and in the ways which sociality prints its mark on what is popular. Dionysian is the life experienced in the universe of informal work, also uneasiness, a sonorous arrangement that vibrates at a different scale. It is the place of selfhood, narrative that takes other speech place and gives rise to strategies of interaction, freedom and action for the players. It's the identity of oneself. Thus, the term informality carries with it a discomfort, but also reveals that the spaces of the city of Brasilia are practiced places, where experiences and solidarity are reactivated every day. To do this we chose to emphasize the words and images that emerge from informal workers who occupy different spaces in the city. This work is a results of a research, supported by CNPq, that begun in 2007, with more than 40 workers interviews and a file with almost 2 thousand pictures.