RepresentaÃÃes sociais da moradia de comunidades ribeirinhas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The favelas have been one form of alternative housing for the poorest stratum in Brazil. They have grown in and around the major cities as an answer to the low-income housing deficit. Misery, unemployment, poor health, and exclusion are common in these habitations. In search for a social insertion, this population struggles against the order imposed by the urban community, revealing its own knowledge and practices in order to cope with daily life, and facing their issue of habitation. It has a logical concept of a living structure, given their concept of world. The home is the place where people are socially and personally settled in the world. Therefore, it is important to learn how the inhabitants conceptualize their surroundings, what impressions they have about their homes and their environment; what representations they have about the home and about the ideal place to live. We interviewed twelve different residents from two riverside favelas in Recife, Brazil, participating in a habitation-resettling program. They told us about their individual trajectory, and the meaning of their daily space as the house, the neighborhood and the community. We also used photography of different types of houses to apprehend the iconic elements of the representations, and to avoid a clime of investigation. We used the Alceste computer program for textual data analysis. The six sets of analyzed answers fell under two axes (the axis 1 was the house as a property, and the axis 2 suggests that despite to live in favelas is associated with the marginality and âliving in dangerâ, the inhabitants have created other senses from their conditions and attribute meanings of protection and security to their home). Their variations (the house as a place of reference and freedom) showed that the inhabitants have attributed subjective and objective meanings to house. The five sets of analyzed answers fell under three axes (axe 1=fear to move for other place; axe 2= time and place/desire to move; axe 3=to get better conditions to live). It sowed us that the representations are related not only to the new place to live, but also to the new net of social interaction that will be established. The recognition that the change will take better conditions to live do not meaning that those people will want to move for other place. Either they created links with the place, or because the new net of interaction are felt as a big threat, make the inhabitants resistant to the change. Therefore, the house is not only a product of the business. It is also a law for human beings to live. To have a house is to fell secure, oriented and different. While the house is a social object, it can interact with the street and with the social world. It is a place where people can get in and to feel recognized

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favela shantytown representaÃÃo social servico social social representations house casa

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