DISCURSOS, PRÁTICAS ORGANIZATIVAS E PICHAÇÃO EM BELO HORIZONTE

In this article, the authors analyze discourses that guide organizational practices related to graffiti in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), which was done through a qualitative study based on discourse analysis. Apart from research in official documents on government actions to combat graffiti, individual in-depth interviews were conducted with nine subjects, among municipal administrators responsible for fighting against graffiti, civil society participants of the actions of municipal project, and representatives of graffiti from Belo Horizonte. Main results suggest that the city government both directs representations of the fight against graffiti and is pressed to face the phenomenon according to several approaches , by which prevail control instruments over the organizational practices of the city, and establishing socio-urban agents of strategic legitimation. They conclude that the public administration is re-signified by different social actors, in particular by the taggers, who adopt a kind of graffiti code of ethics, which antagonizes the city government program, the police conduct and the dominant thinking on the graffiti and taggers, manifesting their position through graffiti.