A diferenciação sócio-espacial de Governador Valadares à luz da sociabilidade da fronteira do Sertão do Rio Doce, décadas de 1940 a 1960

Abstract

Motivated by an urban landscape of Governador Valadares – Praça Aurita Franco Machado and the bust fixed there –, this study is based on the historical context of the last phase of the Sertão do Rio Doce frontier. With the aim of pointing out a differentiation in its formation, in the period between the 1940s and 1960s, when the border determined the primary and dependent character of the municipality's economic dynamics, the city was designed based on the Miltonic category of Socio-economic Formation. Spatial. In light of José de Souza Martins' notion of border sociability, this was specifically based on the reconstitution of his own evolution, which was based on the novels Fome em Canaã (Vasconcelos, 1966) and Nas terras do rio sem dono (Pereira, 1988), whose climaxes took place, in distinct moments, in the spatial dimension of the local scale. To achieve this objective, the socio-spatial practices of the agents that predominated in that context were identified, practices that were discussed in their respective importance for the production of the city's urban space. It was found that land grabbing redefined the existence of the border, inserting it into the dimension of an urban space produced to keep those who had their destinies cut off from the land that was no longer the place of promise, geographically segregated from the urban pioneers of the past.