Decodificando geografias pretéritas e hodiernas de Ilha de Guaratiba

Abstract

Ilha de Guaratiba, on the outskirts of the west area of Rio de Janeiro, is characterized as one of the last country zones of the city, and is passing trough a change of function nowadays, since it once was an agricultural place and due to the increasing housing speculation at the 1970 and 1980 decades, is being currently replaced for an urban-residential structure(FERNANDES, 2006). The mentioned event is fomenting a big mobility towards the place, most of all from the 1990 decade to the present time. Besides this important fact for our spatial analysis, wherewith qualitative research, we intend to focus another phenomena, with existential matter, because it is related to the guaratiba s natives sentimental transformation. With this process, they had their pace of life touched. Once the human bean has no distinction of the place he lives(RELPH, 1976), and each person has a particular and personal geography (LOWENTHAL, 1982; COSGROVE, 2004), it is necessary to show the phenomena in such a way to put a focus in the inhabitant in its place. Actually, the dissertation has as an objective to discuss the phenomena created by the urbanizing process at Ilha de Guaratiba trough all of its aspects, beginning with the focus at the most important actors of this process: The guaratiba s people. With this objective, we intend to interpret their personal geographies, formed of their live experiences, experiences that are responsible for the construction of the past and the present symbols of a strong identification with their place.