Negociations of identity and territoriality in Western Brasilian Amazon.

Authors

  • Valéria de Oliveira Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Keywords: Amazon, Rondônia, migration process, identity, territoriality

Abstract

The implementation of government projects of agricultural settlement in 1970 that triggered an intense migratory flow towards the Brazilian Amazon, more specifically towards Rondônia. Immigrating implies being and not being completely uproot and seek a new rooting, build a new territoriality. In Rondônia emptiness of references generated by the migratory process, led to a search for the construction of a new territoriality, based on the references of places lived and attempted transformation of physical space in a place similar to what was left. It was also found that occurred during a negotiation of identity between the native and those that migrated through the construction of collective identifications which acted as amalgam to start new possibilities among the population over 40 years jumped to over 111.000 inhabitants the 1.2000.000.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

AMARAL, Januário. Mata virgem: terra prostituta. São Paulo: Terceira Margem, 2004.

GALVÃO, Eduardo. Encontro de sociedades: índios e brancos no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e terra, 1979.

BRASIL, Grupo de Trabalho da Amazônia. O fim da floresta. A devastação das Unidades de Conservação e Terras (Relatório). 2008.

IBGE-Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Censo Populacional Rondônia- anos 1950,1960,1970,1980, 2000.

OLIVEIRA, Valéria. Que vim eu fazer aqui? Fazendo do El dorado o meu lugar. In: OLIVEIRA, V. (org). Migração: múltiplos olhares. São Carlos: Pedro & João Editores; Editora da UNIR-EDUFRO, 2011.

REIS, Artur Cezar Ferreira. O impacto amazônico na civilização brasileira: a transamazônica eo desafio dos trópicos. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Paralelo, 1972.

SAQUET, Marcos Aurélio. Abordagens e concepções sobre o território. São Paulo: Expressão Popular, 2007.

TUAN, Yi-Fu. Espaço e lugar: a perspectiva da experiência. São Paulo: DIFEL, 1993.

Published
16-10-2014
How to Cite
de Oliveira, V. (2014). Negociations of identity and territoriality in Western Brasilian Amazon. Naveg@merica. Electronic magazine edited by the Spanish Association of Americanists., (13). Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/navegamerica/article/view/209241
Issue
Section
Articles