A ressignificação do espaço urbano na feira livre no bairro Major Prates em Montes Claros - MG

Abstract

The Free trade shows, especially in the field-city relationship, should be considered as important places where socio-economic and cultural relations are produced periodically. Among the various peculiarities that make the fair a unique trade space, it is observed that in it a diversity in the style of lives of the subjects that make the fair (regulars and sellers). In this context we have the fair free of the neighborhood Major Prates, located in the southern region of the city of Montes Claros-MG. The general objective of this study is to understand the mediation that the Free Fair of the neighborhood Major Prates establishes between the countryside and the city, as well as characterize the free fair of Major Prates , Identify who are the attendees of the free fair of the Major Prates Neighborhood, understand the significance of the Fair for shopkeepers and merchants and analyze how the free fair of Major Prates influences and reorients the dynamics of this public space, so was used the visit in locus, with data collection through semi structured questionnaires and by non-participant observation revealed. The survey had two questionnaire models, one for the regulars and the other for the marketers, which were applied in the months of April and June 2018, totaling 155 people, of whom 60 were chosen because they were in the tents of even numbers, and 105 consumers randomly selected. The data collection also had an interview with the President of the Association of the Feirantes of Major Prates, Mr. Loranildo Araújo, known as Nego. Another field data comes from the observations and photographic record. The results show that the fair contributes to the valorisation of local production and culture and that the relations of the subjects involved do not boil down to the issue of commerce, once one observes personal and affective relations. Thus, it is perceived that the Major Prates fair contributes significantly to local and regional development, since this has become an alternative for the small rural producer to be able to expose and commercialize its production, besides making it possible for the urban population from the municipality and region the offer of a variety of quality products which comes to collaborate with food, making the fair a space of mediation between the countryside and the cit