CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE PERIPHERIES: BODY, ART AND RESISTANCE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how cultural manifestations in urban peripheries participate in the production of lived space, understanding the body, art, and the street as fundamental dimensions in the construction of territorialities, identities, and forms of resistance. The research was developed through a bibliographic review, the survey of secondary sources, and consultation of materials available in digital environments, adopting a qualitative and interpretative approach. The analysis showed that the periphery cannot be reduced to the idea of deprivation, precariousness, or distance from the urban center, as it is also constituted as a space of cultural creation, memory, sociability, and belonging. The results indicate that practices such as graffiti, music, dance, fashion, language, poetry slams, rap battles, and artistic occupations of the street transform walls, squares, alleys, and sidewalks into symbolic territories of expression and dispute. It is concluded that peripheral culture acts as a form of appropriation of urban space, revealing the periphery as a living territory that produces meanings, identities, and everyday resistance.