Os laranjais da cidade de Nova Iguaçu: representações fotográficas de uma transformação (1930-1940)

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes representations of urban transformation and social relations that occurred in Nova Iguaçu between 1929 and 1940. The strong orange production in the region to become - in the early twentieth century - the main supplier of the product to Argentina and Europe, a fact that eased the crisis of 1929 and stopped with the onset of World War II. This disruption highlighted the tendency of funds from 'orange'; to invest in the region with the aim of transforming the large barn in rural urban areas, need to find alternatives that they would replace with the proper proportions, the little financial return in the early World War II. In this context, the fractions of the ruling class in the locality in photographs portray the urban transformations and moments of local politics. The fractions of class, are in New Delhi in the political struggle in the occupation of positions of power. Thus it is noticeable in the city, by the group of citrus growers, the construction of identities in order to strengthen the imagination around the "myth of the golden age" site. These individuals play a central role in processing and marketing of oranges and urban transformation and policy of the municipality. To consolidate his power create economic ties, political and family together. Finally, the fraction of local citrus farmer class, builds, builds on the process 'orange' myth of a golden age for the purposes of establishing the local memory of the residents in the imagination of a time before, of a past golden age, with a view to strengthen the identities of local residents. This myth is perpetuated by the descendants of so-called traditional families, as well as appropriated by politicians in recent times.