Olhares invisíveis: arquitetura e poder na fazenda São Roberto / Invisible sights architecture and power in the farm São Roberto

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The purpose of this dissertation is to connect power relations and architecture in a coffee plantation property. For this, we assumed that the establishment of free rural labor made possible transformations similar to capitalist based businesses, in this sense, the proprietor, the owner of the means of production, is understood as the highest power figure. Settled by Major Joaquim Roberto Rodrigues Freire in 1865 within Ibatés municipality, the grounds of São Robertos coffee farm advances into the boundaries of the city of São Carlos, both located in the Estate of São Paulo. The land was sold to Sabino Soares de Camargo in 1874 and following his death, José Franco de Camargo, his son, assumed the administrative control up to 1955, time span that actually became the focus of our research. Our goal is to investigate the history of the buildings concurrently to the dynamics of political, economical and social power and how spatial arrange contributes to power upholding. To achieve this objective we made use of photographic and iconographic sources allied to interviews and primary documentation research, particularly the family records. The conceptual support furnished by Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu guided our understanding of the spatial materialization of power relations in the coffee plantation architectural forms. The architecture in this sense was used as a power mechanism ideologically oriented by symbolic and coercitive means of control used to rule and actively organize the social relations within this rural property.

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modo de vida coffee poder architecture arquitetura daily life through history power café

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