Memories of childhood in Maringá: urban transformations and rural permanences (1970/1990) / Memórias de infância em Maringá: transformações urbanas e permanências rurais (1970/1990)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This research analyzes childhood memories during the urbanization of the Brazilian city of Maringá between 1970 and 1990. The city was founded at the end of the 1940s as colonization spread to the northern part of Paraná, integrating that area with the rest of the state. Over the following two decades the citys characteristics grew more defined. Maringá became a distribution center for the regions goods and services, benefiting from entrepreneurial investment and the establishment of regional offices for various departments of state government. The expansion of soybean farming and the cultivation of new agricultural products reduced the citys economic dependence on the coffee crop alone. By the early 1970s Maringás population had rapidly expanded to around 130,000 inhabitants, an expansion closely identified with the states 1967 Direction Plan for Development addressing advancing urbanization in Maringás center and the necessity of urgent public action in peripheral areas. Analysing this process, developed between 1970 and 1990, through the eyes of children growing up during this era, the use of oral sources demonstrated being the most indicated. Interviews were conducted with persons born between 1960 and 1980 who lived in Maringá during the 1970-to-1990 study period. In order to provide a complete perspective, the interviewees were chosen from areas geographically distributed across the city, its periphery included. Interview responses permit an analysis of the relationship between the interviewees and factors shaping their everyday lives: housing, food and nourishment, work and play, relationship neighborhood and adult-figures; and also how the subjects interacted with the city as a whole and its various services health, education, leisure, and transportation, among others. The analysis of these oral sources, besides lending insight into the complexities of Maringás urbanization, also shows just how profoundly childhood recollections remain in memory and shape adult lives.

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história de maringá childhood memories memória de infância história do paraná history of children history of paraná history of maringá história das crianças

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