Um cais que abriga histórias de vida homens e máquinas construindo o social na cidade de Macapá (1943-1970)

Abstract

The doutoramento thesis “A wharf that shelters life histories: men and machines constructing the social one in the city of Macapá (1943-1970)” is a study on the sociabilities that had given to form the existence in the city of Macapá. The narrative turns on the social interactions, nets and established sociotécnicas relations in the daily one of the process of gentrificação of the City, in a period of predominance of the local power for the Nunes family in the TFA (1943-70). The laboratorial study it had in sight to apprehend as if it constructed the social one in the city of Macapá, when this City passed for social change in its urban structure. The sociability was the way for which I estimated the possible form of as to apprehend the collective constructions, that make possible the accomplishment or not of the singular or plural wills of the social life. Therefore, the experiment based on the boarding of the sociabilities and symmetrical associations, inhaled, in Simmel, amongst others arrives in port, theoretical conception that implied in the necessity to receive analytical categories as to be able, daily, social nets, sociotécnicas relations. The activity of field had as bedding the biographical sort, consisting of the modality life trajectory as concrete possibility of reconstruction of the past from stories, leading in account the occured discontinuity and ruptures in such a way in the level of the individual life as collective. Meantime, the examined material was plural in its composition: use of autobiografias, heard narratives of interlocutors, periodic, photographs, letters of musics and poetries, as referring empiricist produced in the secular clipping in study. The result of this study if configured in the presence of plural forms of sociability composing the urban universe of city of Macapá, amongst these forms, the power of forces of its occupants seems to say that it was and norteador element in the conquest of living to the city.