Relations between face-to- face ethnography and images from Google Street View: a research into crack cocaine users of the streets of São Paulo’s inner city

Authors

  • Heitor Frúgoli Junior Universidade de São Paulo. Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Languages, and Human Sciences. Department of Anthropology
  • Bianca Barbosa Chizzolini Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Anthropology of the City Study Group

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.129197

Keywords:

Itinerant territorialities, Spatial practices, Urban landscapes, Ethnography, Google Street View

Abstract

Our starting point was a fieldwork experience carried out by the Anthropology of the City Study Group (GEAC-USP) members. We investigated networks of relationships, working with the idea of the so called “cracolândia” (“crackland”) as a type of itinerant territoriality, within a multifaceted context, marked by situational variations (2008-2012). Afterwards, we have integrated ourselves into a new project – “Plataform São Paulo” – bringing together professors from the University of São Paulo. This platform led us to establish a relationship between ethnographic texts, maps and images (data from Google Street View, from 2010 to 2016) of the region of Luz neighborhood, in the central area of São Paulo, the investigated space in the initial research. Our goal in this article is to evaluate the possibilities and limits made possible by this specific relationship between previous ethnographic practice and a posterior use of Google maps and images.

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Author Biographies

  • Heitor Frúgoli Junior, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Languages, and Human Sciences. Department of Anthropology

    Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Languages, and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP) and coordinator of the Anthropology of the City Study Group (GEAC-USP)

  • Bianca Barbosa Chizzolini, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Anthropology of the City Study Group

    Bianca Barbosa Chizzolini has a Master’s in Social Anthropology, from the University 0f São Paulo, and is a member of the Anthropology of the City Study Group (GEAC-USP)

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Published

2017-05-29

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)

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How to Cite

Frúgoli Junior, Heitor, and Bianca Barbosa Chizzolini. 2017. “Relations Between Face-to- Face Ethnography and Images from Google Street View: A Research into Crack Cocaine Users of the Streets of São Paulo’s Inner City”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.129197.