SUB.URB.BIO: a memória dos moradores como construção territorial e das territorialidades da comunidade da Vila das Torres em Madureira - Rio de Janeiro (RJ)

Abstract

This thesis seeks to present, analyze, construct, and discursively reconstruct the territorialities of Vila das Torres, through the social relations established in this community, and to demonstrate that these territorialities have constructed a sense of identity that remains in the subjectivity of the interviewed residents, causing them to carry the territory of the village to the places of their reterritorialization. This village originated from the vegetable gardens developed under the Light transmission towers and between the Light land and the tracks of the Central do Brasil railway line, in Madureira, a suburb of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. This village was part of the process of removing favelas for the realization of mega sporting events in Rio and Brazil, namely, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Furthermore, this study aims to question the situation of the residents of this community after the removal, as remnants of a forced displacement imposed by the State in the pursuit of Rio de Janeiro's image as a "Wonderful and Democratic City," focusing on the process of territorialization, (de)territorialization, and (re)territorialization of its residents. | analyze and problematize the discourse surrounding the creation of Madureira Park in the local/national/independent press and through the voices of its residents. | establish the "non-monetizable" losses that the community suffered with the removal and make visible the history of the community supplanted by the Madureira Park project, which exerts a process of whitening the territory within a policy of "revitalization" of the territory. For this purpose, | use Oral History and Memory as methods of constructing the territoriality of this community, as well as discourse analysis and bibliographic research to reconstruct the motivators for the removal and the struggles of the residents, among other techniques that will be better developed in the part of this work focused on methodology.