A reforma Pereira Passos como mito de origem de uma cidade partida

Abstract

This dissertation is an analysis of the specialized literature in the Pereira Passos’ reform from the 1980s to 2020. The objective of this work is to understand how this literature analyzed the event of the reform, its impacts and changes in the urban space of Rio. From reflections promoted by historical anthropology, I have as hypothesis that this literature built the Pereira Passos’ reform as an event that configures the myth of origin of the broken city. With characteristics that pass hegemonically each decade analyzed, I opted for the decanal separation of the period for the analysis of the specialized literature. As a main feature of production during the 1980s, this literature has established the vision in which sees the reform Pereira Passos as a myth that, through the policies of removal, contributed to the spatial segregation of Rio de Janeiro, mainly by the resulting from the reform. During the 1990s, the focus of the analysis on the urban reform from the turn of the nineteenth century to the twentiethon the hygienist ideology, which contributed to a moral segregation of the territory, based onstigmatizing notions of contamination. Since the 2000s, the literature has a racial turn, with racial issues involved in the reform process being discussed central way. All these themes, recurrent in the decades analyzed, were discussions based on the present. However, what I could observe during the research, the ideas presented by the reform researchers Pereira Passos contributed to the narrative construction of the carioca society, through the mechanisms established during the on the reform from the construction of this event as an amalgamator of processes segregation imposed on the urban network. Therefore, I believe that this literature has organized beyond a myth, an analytical model that structured the historical image of Rio de Janeiro as a broken city.