The Wonderful, Magnanimous, Spectacular and Possible World of Traveling Circuses in Brazil

Aguiar, Ana Rosa Camillo; Carrieri, Alexandre de Pádua; Souza, Eloísio Moulin de

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“…The current study has contributed to improve the debate about this topic, based on the available literature, by highlighting work within a given social order (a structure), rather than just as an individual-subjective element investigated from a psychological perspective (Aguiar et al, 2016;Colet & Mozzato, 2019;Natt et al, 2019;Silva & Cappelle, 2015;Silva et al, 2020;Werner et al, 2017). Therefore, we understand that more than stating how people feel at the time they perform a given activity, mainly an activity that is not seen as profession (Dubar, 2012), it is also important to (re)acknowledge that eventual meanings of work depend on a given social order and on organizing processes (practices) comprising rules and standards that group and coerce people to be acknowledged as belonging (established) to a given social group, or not (outsiders).…”

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“…These artists are sometimes seen as filthy (Douglas, 1966) and tramps, and they are also attacked by those who marginalize them and who do not see circus arts presented at traffic lights as a job. It seems contradictory for a society that stigmatizes circus arts performed at traffic lights to be willing to pay for the performance of artists working in traditional canvas traveling circuses (Aguiar, Carrieri, & Souza, 2016;Natt, Aguiar, & Carrieri, 2019). Presenting a sociological perspective on how the ideas of stigma and deviance associated with the work performed by circus artists are built, based on the experiences reported by these artists, themselves, is what motivates this research.…”

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Get a Job, You Tramp! Deviance and Stigma in the Work of Street Artists and Its Organizing Implications

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Bispo

2022

Organ. Soc.

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The aim of the current study is to analyze the work of street (circus) performers at traffic lights, from a sociological perspective. Therefore, this article focuses on contributing to improve debates about work, by going beyond the individualistic psychological perspective prevailing in the Business Management field and in organizational studies. By assuming work as social practice arising from organizing processes, it uses the classic concepts — deriving from Sociology — of stigma and deviance, as well as takes a critical position about neoliberal rationality, to theoretically contribute to process to think about work based on a non-traditional logic. It analyzes organizations outside organizations, such as family, the streets and the city. The main findings observed in the current study, based on eighteen semi-structured interviews conducted with street artists, enabled seeing that stigmas, such as tramps and filthy people, imposed on these artists, as well as difficulties in their relationship with their families, are the main obstacles to the type of work carried out by them. It was possible concluding that market-oriented neoliberal rationality, which appropriates people’s work and turns profit maximization into the very rationality of life, contributes for circus artists who work at traffic lights to be considered deviant and stigmatized, as well as opens room for angry discourses capable of promoting violence and prejudice. Thus, it is necessary changing the “get a job, you tramp!” statement into understanding of and respect for different individuals.

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Get a Job, You Tramp! Deviance and Stigma in the Work of Street Artists and Its Organizing Implications

Sampaio

Bispo

2022

Organ. Soc.

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“…O nosso trabalho contribui para o avanço do debate sobre o tema, considerando a literatura existente, quando busca evidenciar o trabalho dentro de um ordenamento social (uma estrutura), e não apenas como um elemento individual-subjetivo estudado por uma perspectiva psicológica (Aguiar et al, 2016;Colet & Mozzato, 2019;Natt et al, 2019;Silva & Cappelle, 2015;Silva et al, 2020;Werner et al, 2017). Portanto, entendemos que mais do que enunciar como as pessoas se sentem ao realizar um trabalho, especialmente uma atividade que não seja considerada uma profissão (Dubar, 2012), também é importante (re)conhecer que eventuais sentidos do trabalho dependem de uma ordem social e processos organizativos (práticas) com regras e normas, que agrupam e coagem as pessoas para serem reconhecidas como pertencentes (estabelecidos) a um grupo social ou não (outsiders).…”

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“…Os artistas, por vezes, são vistos como sujos (Douglas, 1966) e vagabundos, além de serem agredidos por aqueles que os marginalizam e que não consideram a arte circense apresentada em um semáforo como um trabalho. Parece contraditório que uma sociedade que estigmatiza a arte circense performada no semáforo estar disposta a pagar por uma apresentação em um circo tradicional de lona e itinerante (Aguiar, Carrieri, & Souza, 2016;Natt, Aguiar, & Carrieri, 2019). O que motiva esta pesquisa é justamente apresentar um olhar sociológico sobre como são construídas as noções de estigma e desvio sobre o trabalho dos artistas circenses a partir das experiências reportadas pelos próprios artistas.…”

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Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo! Desvio e Estigma no Trabalho do Artista de Rua e suas Implicações Organizativas

Sampaio

Bispo

2022

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Resumo O nosso objetivo neste artigo é analisar o trabalho dos artistas circenses no semáforo a partir de um olhar sociológico. Diante disso, este texto busca contribuir para o avanço do debate sobre trabalho, indo além da perspectiva psicológica individualista que predomina na área de administração e nos estudos organizacionais. Assumindo o trabalho enquanto uma prática social oriunda de processos organizativos, utilizamos as noções clássicas — derivadas da sociologia — de estigma e desvio e uma posição crítica à racionalidade neoliberal, com o objetivo de contribuir teoricamente para se pensar o trabalho por uma lógica não tradicional. Olhamos para as organizações fora das organizações como, por exemplo, família, a rua e a cidade. A partir de dezoito entrevistas semiestruturadas com artistas, apresentamos como principais resultados que o estigma de vagabundos e sujos e as dificuldades de relacionamento com as famílias são os principais entraves desse tipo de trabalho realizado pelos artistas. Concluímos que a racionalidade neoliberal orientada para o mercado, que se apropria do trabalho das pessoas fazendo da maximização do lucro a própria racionalidade da vida, contribui para que os artistas circenses no semáforo sejam considerados desviantes e estigmatizados, abrindo espaço para um discurso raivoso, promotor de violências e preconceitos. Nesse sentido, é preciso transformar o “vai trabalhar, vagabundo!” em compreensão e respeito ao diferente.

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“…Although Anderson (2008), Junquilho, Almeida and Silva (2012), Oliveira and Cavedon (2013), Carrieri et al (2014), Barros and Carrieri (2015), Aguiar, Carrieri and Souza (2016), among others, do not deny cultural plurality when offering their contributions to the study of management regarding its ordinary aspects, they do not address specifically how this diversity involves the relationships of resistance and forms of survival in the organizing of a production such as handicraft. To fill this gap, this article contributes to the discussion of alternative paths to study management, ways to organize, cultural diversity, and handicraft itself, placing the artisan as an ordinary manager, protagonist of his/her history of survival within cultural plurality.…”

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The ordinary, cultures, and management: the organizing processes within the handicraft sector in Piúma (ES), Brazil

2020

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This article aims to understand the ordinary management of the resistances and forms of survival, organized in everyday practices that are in part product and producers of cultural plurality in the field of handicrafts in the city of Piúma, Brazil. From the perspective of practice-based studies (Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011), we articulate theoretically the approach of ordinary management (Carrieri, Perdigão & Aguiar, 2014) of craft production (Sennett, 2009) and the certeaunian contributions. These contributions are directed towards the recognition of the games of force relations within a cultural plurality. In proposing the focus on this plurality, this article fills a gap, because in previous studies on ordinary management, this cultural plurality has not been specifically addressed. The proposal was supported by a qualitative research, accomplished through document collection, participant observation, and unstructured interviews with five artisans from Piúma. In the analysis of the data, we articulate the narrative practice in De Certeau (1985) and narrative temporality in Ricoeur (1994). As results, we identify different networks of force relations in which artisans are involved in organizing practices of ordinary management. In them, cultures have shown themselves as plural productions, moving away from the view of a popular culture, external to everyday practices or submissive to other external pressures. This article contributes to an alternative view at the Ordinary Management of handicrafts and other organizational actions based on cultural plurality.

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The Wonderful, Magnanimous, Spectacular and Possible World of Traveling Circuses in Brazil

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Get a Job, You Tramp! Deviance and Stigma in the Work of Street Artists and Its Organizing Implications

Get a Job, You Tramp! Deviance and Stigma in the Work of Street Artists and Its Organizing Implications

Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo! Desvio e Estigma no Trabalho do Artista de Rua e suas Implicações Organizativas

The ordinary, cultures, and management: the organizing processes within the handicraft sector in Piúma (ES), Brazil

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