Processos de comunicação nas rotas de viajantes: uma poética da mobilidade na América do Sul

Abstract

The theme of this Doctoral Thesis is the communication of travelers in South America. We analyze the processes of creation in the communication of travelers in this region of the continent from cultural encounters in the relationship between walkers, residents, environments and contingencies in the routes. Our object of study (or investigated phenomenon) is composed of the communicational interlacing of these walkers to build the flow of mobility across the continent. The research is based on four fundamental assumptions of analysis: 1) this road culture develops in the external public space; 2) urban communication that links these paths occurs through subversion of codes and generation of new senses; 3) in this context, the re-significations and processes of semiosis are based on a poetics of mobility proper to the routes of travelers; and 4) the profusion of heterogeneities and alterities in South American societies favor the dynamics of combinations between codes, series, languages, and events of this relation. Our theoretical framework includes authors such as Amálio Pinheiro, to discuss Latin American cultures in their mestizo and baroque aspects; Manuel Delgado, to understand communication in the context of the urban movement; Iuri Lotman, used in the examination of the circulation of the elements that integrate the studied semiotic system; and Edgar Morin, to help us to consider the complexities of the relationships of the investigated phenomenon. Our general objective was to identify and understand the languages and creation processes in the communication of travelers in transit through South America, insofar as they are combined with the socio-cultural interpositions occasioned during the journey. As a methodological strategy, we developed theoretical-empirical research in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, based on an ethnographic method of field research and semiotic analysis of languages. The corpus consists of records collected from the on-site examination, as well as from reports recorded by the travelers themselves. The research problem asks to what extent and under what aspects the communication of travelers in transit through South America combines with the contingencies interposed in the travel plan (in the relation between walkers, residents, landscapes and circumstances) and delineates a specific fractal structure of the route. Our hypothesis is that, through a process of sociocultural deglutition, travelers articulate their previous travel plans to the events that get in the way, reconstructing paths and resignifying pre-established codes of the South American routes