Uma compreensão do lugar a partir da memória: um estudo do bairro Jardim Eldorado em Montes Claros - MG

Abstract

The city of Montes Claros, MG has experienced since 1960, a significant increase of its population leveraged with the process of industrialization promoted by creation of a sub headquarters of the Superintendência de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste - SUDENE. Migrants most of them from disadvantaged districts and adjacent rural areas that suffered an intense process of monoculture implantation in the region came to inhabit peripheral areas of the city and, as a consequence, new neighborhoods were quickly created to house this population. In this context, shortly after the installation of the Companhia de Materiais Sulfurosos - MATSULFUR, the Jardim Eldorado neighborhood, in the northwestern part of the city was founded. This research aimed to understand the main elements that served as an attraction for the first residents, mostly from districts and neighboring cities, to leave their places of origin and migrate to the city of Montes Claros, as well as to identify the main aspects that confer to Jardim Eldorado their identity. In this context, the objective was to understand the socio spatial and economic processes that contributed to the formation of the neighborhood Jardim Eldorado, in the Northwest portion of the city of Montes Claros. The inhabitants' ties to the neighborhood, their experiences, their trajectories, their life histories and their experiences, were the focal points of this study, since the notion of place involves the human in its relations with equals and with the environment, submerging all the subjective charge in which relationships occur and which are evoked by memory. Thus, with the use of the ethnographic\ethnogeographic method, it was intended to achieve a dense and comprehensive understanding of these socio-spatial dynamics. As a result of this research, there was a better understanding of this whole that is called the neighborhood, as well as the different parts that constitute its schema, since this neighborhood system, because it is not endowed with staticity, requires a greater attention to its elements\attributes so that the understanding of their main dynamics occurs holistically