ARRASTÃO DO PAVULAGEM, COMMUNICATION, SOCIABILITIES AND SENSIBILITIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES

Abstract

This article seeks to address how communication practices crossed the cultural event Arrastão do Pavulagem, during the years 2020 and 2021 (the period of greatest intensity of the covid-19 pandemic), and the subjects involved in its preparation and execution, through the practices
of sociability that permeate the processions that constitute the event. The work seeks to understand how it was possible, on the part of these subjects, to be together during digital
events held in the online environment, at a time when this environment was the only one considered safe for the establishment of exchanges and communication practices between
subjects; and what feelings and sensations were triggered in the subjectivity of each one, from the communication practices. The contributions of the postulates of França (2008), about communication practices as interactions between subjects; Simmel (1983), about
sociability practices; Maffesoli (1998; 2016), about the experience and sharing of affections; and Halbwachs (2013), about collective memory will be evoked. As results, one can mention
that the communication processes of the subjects involved in the Arrastão do Pavulagem suffered changes with the removal of the parades from the streets of downtown Belém:
social networking sites, such as the Facebook page and the YouTube video platform of the Arraial do Pavulagem became the stage of the encounters, from the expressive occurrence of interactions and sharing among the users present in the digital social network.