Summary Of Sustainability At The Waterfront

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This paper analyzes sustainability as a sociomaterial practice at the waterfront of João Pessoa from its everyday life and from the actions of its Management Committee. Authors understand sustainability as a daily sociomaterial practice that was not prescribed, and which emerges from, perpetuates and is modified through daily interactions between humans and non-humans. According to sociomateriality, these are the constitutive elements of all social reality. Authors present the ethnomethodology approach as an alternative to study the issue – ethnomethodology can be understood here as a theoretical approach to practice studies, as well as a methodological approach to understand everyday life phenomena. Therefore, the practice was ethnomethodologicaly investigated to check its daily accomplishments from which authors aimed to comprehend how this practice happened in the context of João Pessoa’s waterfront.

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