This thesis is a study of the “underground” cycling community in Ogden, Utah. Countercultural cycling micro-communities exist across the United States, if not the world, but have not yet been thoroughly studied by folklorists. This research establishes a foundational understanding of the nature of underground cycling culture, particularly in relation to identity. Using folkloric definitions of identity and subculture as my foundation, I examine four different facets of cyclist activities: folk art, folk events, narratives, and the community’s use of space. These four facets provide a variety of lenses through with to examine actualized, expressive cyclist behavior. Each facet also illustrates the different levels (personal, community, and global) at which identity is performed. The most personal performances of cyclist identity are through the folk art of modified bicycles. Modifications tend to reflect the personality of the cyclist, and consequently a bicycle comes to hold much symbolism for the cyclist. The communitylevel studies consisted of examining group events where I observed how the group interacted with itself. The performance and participation in activities are what constitutes an actual cycling community, rather than a series of individual cyclists. The examination of narratives moves outward to contextualize the cycling microcommunity within the larger Ogden community. This chapter explores the role of conflict, illustrates how cyclists think of themselves, and illustrates how cyclists define themselves in opposition to motorists. The community spaces examination looks at the use of physical space versus digital space. These spaces illustrate how the community behaves amongst itself versus how the community behaves amongst the larger, online, Utah cycling community. The physical space reflected the creativity and utilitarian needs of the group. The restrictive digital spaces manage to be expressive through images and language. Internal group conflict occurs more often online, however, due to infractions of implicit group etiquette, possibly as a symptom of a less personal form of interaction. The marginalized, cyclist identity seemed to hold the greatest rewards at the more intimate, personal levels. Moving outward towards broader community-level contests, cyclist identity seems to become a source of conflict.

[pt] O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a experiência atual de jovens, provenientes dos cursos pré-vestibulares comunitários, como estudantes universitários, na PUC-Rio. Através do projeto Bolsa de Ação Social, desde 1994, a Universidade vem possibilitando a formação gratuita de jovens impossibilitados de custear o curso superior. Este projeto tem propiciado um cenário de convivência com a diferença, onde trajetórias de vida distintas seriam confrontadas diariamente, redimensionando valores e paradigmas. A pesquisa foi realizada através de entrevistas com os jovens bolsistas − de uma pluralidade de cursos e áreas do conhecimento − e da observação- itinerante. Optou-se por privilegiar os jovens oriundos dos cursos pré-vestibulares comunitários, apostando que, as propostas político-pedagógicas, de alguns destes cursos, promovem mudanças nas concepções e no posicionamento dos jovens frente ao mundo. Os autores Michel de Certeau e Mikhail Bakhtin serviram como referenciais de base para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa e para a análise do material obtido. Em um espaço estruturado em função de um perfil específico de alunado, estes jovens forasteiros criam seus próprios trajetos e se apropriam, criativamente, do espaço de modos particulares. Táticas coletivas (e/ou individuais) são utilizadas para o enfrentamento dos obstáculos e impasses que se colocam no cotidiano acadêmico. Se, de um lado, corroboram velhos paradigmas e concepções, de outro, são surpreendidos e os re-significam. Os jovens afetam e são, simultaneamente, afetados pelo novo espaço. Constroem-se novas identidades e novos processos de subjetivação. / [en] The present study aims to analyze the lives experiences of contemporary university students of PUC-Rio from community pre-university preparatory courses. Since 1994, through the project Bolsa de Ação Social, this university promotes the graduation of the students from this courses providing full scholarship due to their difficulty to finance their own study. This project allows the formation of a co- living scenario that stirs different and confronting lifetime histories leading to changes in values and paradigms concepts. This investigation was enrolled through individual interviews with students of different knowledge areas with the history above, and from itinerant- observation. This group of students was selected due to the belief that the political and pedagogical proposals of their courses promotes reevaluation of the concepts and of the place occupied by these students front the world. Important authors such as Michel de Certeau and Mikhail Bakhtin were the basis for the development of research and analysis of data obtained. In an environment structured according to a specific group of students profile, these foreign students creates pathways and creatively occupies places with particular means. Collective tactics (and/or individual), are utilized to face obstacles of the academic quotidian. Ether way they corroborate old paradigms and concepts or are surprised and remodel them. Students affect and are self affected by this new environment in which new identities and subjectivities process are constructed.

El presente documento tiene como finalidad desarrollar el proyecto de tesis de un centro educativo público con espacios comunitarios en Villa María del Triunfo. Este busca brindan una respuesta a la inadecuada infraestructura de los centros educativos y la carencia de espacios y actividades que lo vinculen con la comunidad. Adicionalmente, el proyecto brindará una solución a un problema particular en la zona de intervención, se retornará área pública que fue privatizada. / The purpose of this document is to develop the thesis project of a public educational center with community spaces in Villa María del Triunfo. This search provides a response to the inadequate infrastructure of educational centers and the lack of spaces and activities that link it with the community. In addition, the project will provide a solution to a particular problem in the area of intervention, it will return a public area that was privatized. / Tesis

En esta investigación se recopilará información teórica fundamental que se consideraran para el diseño de un Centro Comunitario en el distrito de Villa María del Triunfo. Esto se realizará a través de la búsqueda de soluciones sobre los diversos factores de vulnerabilidad y riesgo social, los cuales son deficientes en el distrito, dando como efectos la inseguridad ciudadana, vandalismo, robos, miedo al delito, etc., dentro del distrito. Es así como se definirá como la tipología a través la permeabilidad permitirán un mejor funcionamiento del desarrollo integral otorgando a la comunidad de dicho distrito la regenerarán actividades que proporcionen integración, educación, recreación, salud y reunión social, estas actividades estarán dirigidas especialmente para niños y jóvenes, pero sin excluir adultos y adultos mayores. Para obtener este resultado, se investigará como se complementan estas variables dentro de un Centro Comunitario, abarcados dentro de los espacios de uso comunitario tales como, Espacios de servicio social, zonas para actividades asistenciales, espacios públicos, zona educativa, talleres múltiples, zona de biblioteca, auditorios y zona de salud, espacios propios de la tipología. / In this research, fundamental theoretical information will be gathered that will be considered for the design of a Community Center in the district of Villa María del Triunfo. This will be done through the search for solutions to the diverse factors of vulnerability and social risk, which are deficient in the district, giving as effects citizen insecurity, vandalism, robberies, fear of crime, etc., within the district. This is how it will be defined as the typology through the permeability will allow a better functioning of the integral development giving to the community of this district the regeneration of activities that provide integration, education, recreation, health and social gathering, these activities will be directed especially for children and young people, but without excluding adults and older adults. In order to obtain this result, we will investigate how these variables complement each other within a Community Center, covered within the spaces of community use such as, Social service spaces, areas for assistance activities, public spaces, educational area, multiple workshops, library area, auditoriums and health area, spaces typical of the typology. / Trabajo de investigación