O que se perde ao perder a casa: o papel das emoções na resistência em Vargem Grande/RJ

Abstract

The place is not totally natural, nor fully human, but the result of the interactions that make environment and individuals mutually subject and object. In this sense, Vargem Grande can be seen as a neighborhood whose importance is beyond the environmental aspect. Marked by the presence of an exuberant vegetations typical of the Atlantic Forest, which provides a pleasant climate and a small-town feeling, the neighborhood has been victim of a Urban Structuring Project (PEU, in the original) that provides for landscape, environmental, urban, economic, social and cultural transformations. In order to avoid the realization of this project and propose an alternative that dialogues with the community and its needs, the Vargens’ Popular Plan Articulation (APP, in the original) was formed in 2016, whose proposals were aimed at preserving the environment together with the defense of local ways of life: the quilombola community, rural workers and slum dwellers, with the fundamental point being the fight against the removal. Thereby, starting from an analysis that understands there is an affective link between individual and place, named topophilia, the dissertation intends to understand the influence of the love for the inhabited place and other emotions on the decision to resist.