Luz, câmera, ação: Cidade de Deus entre histórias e memórias

Abstract

The thesis entitled Light, Camera, Action: Cidade de Deus, between histories and memories aims to analyse the segregation processes and identitary construction in the specific context of Cidade de Deus district, located in Jacarepaguá Lowland, West Zone of Rio de Janeiro borough. The research refers to the comprehension of the sociospatial dynamics that enfolded or are enfolding the modalities construction and the identitary production in Cidade de Deus. The thesis also concentrates the trajectories of determined dwellers that, through strategies associated to the use of audiovisual language and the image appropriation produced about the district, elaborate well succeeded biographies. The material gathering to the thesis consisted in fieldwork realization that included the participant observation, interviews, researches in public and private collection in a period of thirty months between the years of 2006 to 2009. The project notions, field of possibilities and memory are used as analytical categories in the comprehension of individual actions in interaction with the social context in which they are located. Eventually it was possible to comprehend interactions, ways, alternatives and social mobility processes in peripheral spaces in Brazilian society context nowadays.