A invenção de um lugar: vivências e memórias (n) da favela da Cachoeira (Campina Grande 1959-2006).

Abstract

Think the city, implies think in spatiality and temporality. Therefore, we have to keep in mind that cities are produced in certain spaces and times historical in that the dynamics of men in society model their contours. The city thought in this context is Campina Grande. The present paper has the concern to make possible another look of how was the construction process of Cachoeira slums in Campina Grande - while a building living space, from the year 1959, construction while place meaning by its residents and other citizens. We'll strolled through the experiences of some popular in the city. We will tell a story of residents of Cachoeira slums, especially the way became possible experiences in the slums and how they experienced these experiences are not always so harmonious. We will discuss how everyday social agents of Cachoeira claimed and fought for improving their quality of life, movement that eventually resulted in the removal in 2006 of about 670 families of the slum into a space designed to receive them: the Allotment Gloria, or, as it is known, Gloria District.We will discuss how everyday social agents from Cachoeira claimed and fought for improving their quality of life, movement that eventually resulted in the removal in 2006 of about 670 families of the slum into a space designed to receive them: the Allotment Gloria, or, as it is known, Gloria District. To conduct our work, we used interviews with former residents of the slums, and we used official documents and works of historiographical imprint. I believe that as we raise questions about how think the city, the historicity of the subject, the daily practices of the slum dwellers Cachoeira, living conditions, social aspects of community residents, forces and interests which were related to drafting process transition to the Gloria district, about the role or place of this popular achievement as producers of culture and agents that militated in favor of effective measures to improve the living conditions of the community, we contributing to the discussions that have been held in the academic that deal with relations and social conflict, about the everyday, on reforms urban plots and political and economic structures are linked.