Espaços e linguagens: marcos de memórias nas histórias de Araguari - MG/ 1888-1988

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to understand the way how memories about Araguari-MG city were produced, selected and publicized. The main focus was to reflect and problematize how workers experiences memories were incorporated or rejected, as well as, these subjects were placed in this process from the disputes over the right of the city. Socially constituted disputes also for the right to the past and its history. Reflections developed allowed social relations to be replaced and ways of living produced in the city in a process in which time and space categories cannot be dissociated. This option made me understand that building landmark memory anchors itself to meanings attributed to them and leave aside the multiplicity of experiences that, if investigated, point to the memories production conflictual process about the city. For this, the final production of this thesis was based not only on interior academic production confronting debates, but mostly with memories social production processes in a larger ambit, i.e., of social relations and contradictions involving disputes engendered on time for the history protagonists with whom I have dialogued. This emerge on the analysis from the constructed dialogue with social produced languages that were researched and are from different natures: press, oral narratives, photographs, city intervention plans, books of memoirists, maps, Minutes of the City Council, among others. These supports, when problematized, were transforming itself in evidences which gave opportunity to deepen the goals that drove the production of this thesis.