Health Production: an experience of art and culture in the daily lives of children from a peripheral neighborhood in São Vicente/SP Breno Ayres Chaves Rodrigues, Jéssica Gottschalk Silva, Rafael Moreira Dardaque Mucinhato, Sarah Fernandes Santana, Valéria Nancy de Freitas, Carla Cristina Borges Santos, Patricia Leme de Oliveira Borba

Abstract

Understanding childhood as a social construct within a specific time-space and viewing children as rights-bearing subjects actively participating in this social construction—meaning they produce cultures—we followed, based on the theoretical-methodological framework of ethnography and social psychology, the everyday lives of four children. The aim was to deepen our understanding of the everyday reality of childhood and the neighborhood in which it unfolds. Among the results highlighted in this article is the relationship of these children with art and culture. Firstly, the importance of providing diverse artistic and cultural spaces in the daily lives of these children is discussed. Secondly, the significance of recognizing spontaneous and popular artistic expression transmitted intergenerationally is emphasized. Both are seen as forms of resistance to a globalized monoculture.