Relações de poder no complexo fabril têxtil de Rio Largo: identificando inter-relações socioespaciais.

Abstract

This paper aims to interpret the social-spatial perceptions of individuals from the memories of those who live directly or indirectly in the remaining space of the "factory-city" in Rio Largo, Alagoas, reconstituting its recollected history. Today, in another context, it is no longer "textile", although it still has an urban design composed almost entirely of architectural arrangements that used to exist in the form of factories, office buildings, train stations, educational buildings and cultural projects, churches and other buildings related to manufacturing activities, as well as housing workers and public space arrangements. This study reviews historiographical references, uses prepositions of Oral History, individual and collective memory, and mental proxemy maps and discourse analysis, as well as the concepts of Foucault on power and power relations, which chain together means for understanding and reflecting on the physical place and the users in their historical paths. The methodology of this study was anchored in the implementation of Oral History and the making of mind maps from applied field research with approach techniques and the choice of the subjects of the space, making in total approximately thirty interviewees and makers of mind maps, who provided psychological and spatialized reports and references that guide the reflections in this study. Today, the architectural arrangement of that place still reflects the dominance of the social and spatial relationships from the "textile" that make up the site and still do. Despite such evident marks of the power relations nurtured in that place, our data analysis spotted a certain pattern of dissatisfaction in living there, which is surprising due to how those relations represent the dynamics of the past.