Changes in perceived, conceived and lived spaces in Chapecó-sc due to the Associação Chapecoense de Futebol from 2014 to 2016

Abstract

The Associação Chapecoense de Futebol has a great social, cultural, symbolical, and economical importance to Chapecó-SC and region. Since 2014, the club disputes the Brazilian League's main division (Série A) generating social and spatial changes. Thus, this article aims at analysing the changes in perceived, conceived and lived spatiality instances in Chapecó due to Chapecoense's success from 2014 to 2016. Besides documentary research, field observations were made, 21 interviews were carried out, and 157 questionnaires were administered in the commercial establishments. In football representational space (lived instance), Chapecoense increased its influence at the local, regional, national and international levels in different aspects. Chapecoense's participation in the everyday life of the people who live in Chapecó increased along with the political and economical appropriation of Chapecoense in Chapecó and region both in the perceived and lived spaces.