SUSPENSIONS TIMES… grave and acute tones of the pandemic in public space

Abstract

Urban life as an expression of macro and microstructural processes has become complex, considering the pandemic, highlighting the old dilemmas of sociability in public spaces. In such circumstances, the restrictions imposed on the displacement of the population in the streets came to the fore, representing important matters to think about. The article would list some challenges caused by the pandemic, in dialogue with contributions from urban sociology, prioritizing the following themes: vulnerabilities and urban spoliation, public space, feelings, behaviors and interpellations to urban sociology on a macro and micro social scale. The text is based on theoretical works about the analysis of city life in terms of collective living, intellectual debates raised by the advent of the pandemic, empirical research and observations made mainly in Fortaleza. The final reflections converge on possible connections between classic and recent issues directed at urban sociology.