A juventude skatista e a violência : o skate em São Paulo na década de 1970

Abstract

This work has as its theme the practice of skateboarding and the forms of violence practiced as a way to inhibit it. In this sense, the main object of the present paper consists in to understand the relationship between skateboarding practiced from the early 1970s to the year 1980 and the forms of repression of this practice, especially in the city of São Paulo. More specifically, the work intends to show elements that indicate that the way of dealing with the practice of skateboarding was primarily mediated by violence. The main sources that support the construction of this text are articles, dissertations and academic theses, as well as newspaper articles, especially from the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.