Espaços luminosos e opacos: simultaneidades e tempos na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This work approaches, in a multidisciplinary way, the different eras present in the metropolitan regions, as well as the simultaneities of these eras, territories and spaces, realizing how in capitalism these elements create, at each moment, a different and particular insertion in the process of metropolization, modifying the structure of the metropolis and its possibilities of insertion in contexts of globalization, which may facilitate inclusion or determine exclusion in this context, which would then lead to a peripheral position. It seeks to delineate spatial contours appropriate to the contexts and to the different areas in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte. Thus the concepts of territory and territoriality are important references for the work. The different eras will be approached in categories that are close to what we will call “luminous territories” and “opaque territories”, where the former ensure the global functioning of society and the economy and the latter resist the hegemonic sectors, given their organicity. The situations to which the concepts would apply were identified through field research and secondary sources. The concepts were expanded when the situations in the field showed that in this way a more representative reading of reality could be obtained. At the end of the work, it is verified that the rupture that occurred after modernity produces what, at the moment, could be spaces within a fragmentation process, where time can also be modified.