Representação torcedora e território urbano

debates sobre violência e cidade a partir da torcida organizada Raça Rubro-Negra

Abstract

The present article aims to analyze the representation strategies of the organized supporters’ groups in the 1980s and 1990s, especially Raça Rubro-Negra, and their distinct relations with the urban. To this end, the article relies on debates about urban violence and performance, understanding that the phenomenon of organized supporters’ groups is proper of the urban, re-signified as a space of agency and as territory. The construction of alliances and rivalries between such supporters drives the distinct uses of the city by the fans, in which the motto of the relations is established from the expectation of the distinction. Thus, the article seeks to deal with the relationship between organized supporters’ groups, their sociability strategies to produce their meanings and representations anchored in the logic of disjunction and the scenario of Rio de Janeiro in the mentioned period.