Quando a Apolo 11 Desce ao Nordeste: As representações e tensões do desenvolvimento e emancipação política de Carrapateira (Paraíba, 1937-1969).

Abstract

The aim of this work is to discuss the representations of modern and its relations with the urban development and political emancipation of Carrapateira, a small municipality of Hinterland State of Paraiba. He sought to answer the following question: how the municipality of Carrapateira became politically emancipated without providing an urban development able to offer its people the improvements provided by the modernity of the time? Following the definitions presented by urban history and to analyze the representation of modernity in the development process that resulted in the political emancipation of the city, between the years 1937 and 1969, he tried to analyze the tensions present in this process. To this end, consultations were held to journalistic collections, documentaries, literature on the subject and collecting testimonies of older residents of the community.