RUPTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE CITY
ORGANIZATION: DISCONTINUITIES AND CONTINUITIES CAUSED BY THE COVID-19
PANDEMIC AND THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF RUA DA LAMA, IN VITÓRIA, ES

Name: GUILHERME BADARÓ DRUMOND

Publication date: 24/03/2022
Advisor:

Name	Role
LETICIA DIAS FANTINEL	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
CÉSAR AUGUSTO TURETA DE MORAIS	Internal Examiner *
LETICIA DIAS FANTINEL	Advisor *

Summary: The research aimed to understand the reconfiguration dynamics of organizational
spaces in the city of Vitória (ES) through practices reorganization by subjects,
motivated by ruptures in daily life related to Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, I
adopted the theoretical perspective of practices based on Certeau’s theory (1998)
articulated to the notion of ruptures in everyday life (LEITE, 2010) and knowledge of
urban organizational processes in Organizational Studies. I carried out a qualitative
study adopting the techniques of semi-structured interview and non-participant
observation, in addition to documentary sources. The interpretation of the findings
was based on five analytical codes generated: “daily disruptions”; “social, political
and organizing challenges in managing the crisis”; “negotiate and articulate”;
“recursive aspect of practices” and “spatial (re)construction of Rua da Lama”. The
results show how the different practices, interests and uses manifested in public
spaces reconfigured daily life and space in the city in contexts of rupture. Starting
from the specific context of the pandemic, it was possible to understand that
appropriations, transgressions and subversions by different subjects and social
groups motivate the development of new strategies by public management, thus
enabling the emergence of new tactical astuteness by practitioners of Lama, and so
on. More than a rupture in practices caused by the identified ruptures, it was possible
to identify and describe a context of reconfiguration of practices, marked by
continuities and discontinuities in permanent tension. I hope that the findings can
contribute to the expansion of discussions around urban organizational processes,
reinforcing a procedural view of everyday life, by showing how micro and macro
aspects, strategies and tactics, everyday life and city are interdependent in their
(re)production, even in situations of rupture – thus expanding the field of
organizational studies on urban themes, in particular those anchored in the Theory of
Practices.

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