POLÍTICAS DE RESISTÊNCIA PELO ENCANTAR: O BRINCAR NA CULTURA POPULAR

Historically, developmental psychology has emphasized playing in childhood; however, we believe that playing is an ontological activity that extends throughout life. In the present article, we discuss playing in the context of popular culture by studying adults who call themselves  brincantes  (players). By these means, we investigate the construction of meaning and the constitution of players, using the cultural-historical perspective as our theoretical basis. We also appeal to Mikhail Bakhtin’s studies on popular culture, discussing playing as an activity located in between art and life. Moreover, we highlight and reflect on narratives of players, focusing on the strength of popular culture as a politics of resistance through a peculiar logic: enchantment. We finally emphasize the political need to reconfigure the notions of playing that still prevail, with more sensitive eyes towards popular expressions and the very human constitution.