Do espaço concebido ao espaço vivido: um estudo de caso sobre as representações espaciais e identidades na Favela da Maré, RJ.

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Cristiane
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia; Ordenamento territorial e ambiental
• Palavras-chave em Português: Favela da Maré (RJ); Espaço público; Representação política; Planejamento urbano; Favela; Rio de Janeiro; Public space; Representation politics; Urban planning; favelas; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::GEOGRAFIA FISICA
• Link de acesso: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/18298

Rio de Janeiro is a city, which has been built up by means of social, political, economical, cultural and environmental differences and inequalities. Such inequalities have produced a large number of spatial forms and contents which have exerted directly influence on the different ways of life, on the established relationships and on the way people evaluate and conceive certain spaces in the city. This paper aims to analysing the building up of social representations through diverse linguistic sources (reports. Interviews, photographs, cartoons, drawings, etc.) which can influence either positively or negatively in the public opinion about favelas in Rio de Janeiro and about Favela da Maré in particular. The favelas have their own identities and it is possible to distinguish all of them in the landscape. Identity is marked by the differences by what may be or may not be. The favelas bear a series of symbols, which make them different from other spaces in the city. The Maré being identified as such carries stereotypes normally used to mark those popular spaces such as: the look of its landscape, its location, unregistered housing lack of basic urban structure, a place for poor uneducated people, a risky and violent and unhealthy area, all in all a lacking place. Following this common sense view those who drive along Avenida Brasil and Linha Vermelha, can see a chaotic looking the house entanglement a lack of vegetation and the verticalization of the dwellings; it is a flat ground favela except for Morro do Timbau where you cannot identify visually or physically the boundaries among the integrating communities. It is a space without affective or emotional meanings which makes us feel apprehensive, scared and powerless. However reality is much more complex. It is considered as a living space by its 132.176 inhabitants, it is composed by 16 communities and two individuals neighbourhoods in spite of its apparent homogeneity. People who live there came from different walks of life and have as a consequence a variety of livings, experiences and distinct kinds of knowledge. The way its inhabitants see the place is based on their experiences and everyday life, so they don´ t see the favela Maré as a lacking place as its represented by the media. They have terms of endearment and a feeling of being part of this place, which may be related or not to their place of birth, or even to where they live. Nevertheless they recognise their situation and their problems and they fight for rights. They can turn this space of fear into their place of living into the stage for their personal and social relationships, where they find alternatives to survive despite all the adversities. Those spaces of representations, which are marked by direct relationships, by their everyday life, are also affected by information and spatial practices, which come from the autter world to the inhabitants. Such production of space may deeply mark their identification with their place of living. We often identify reproductions of the discourse used by the media within communities, which causes a stereotyped representation by the inhabitants too. Therefore we can conclude that all those spatial perceptions and conceptions will have direct influence on the construction of an identity for that place. In fact, all those linkers no matter whether they are good or bad, beautiful or ugly, loved or hated, criticised or praised mark those livings. They are part and parcel of their lives, of what is conceived and perceived and they formulate and (re)build by the views about the place.