Transformações e permanências do lugar: um olhar sobre a Vila da Fábrica, Camaragibe/PE

Abstract

Composed of a plural historical context, the Vila da Fábrica constitutes, in the current period, a space of possibilities for the capital's action, with potential repercussions on the lives of its residents. The research had as its theme the transformations and permanences in the space of the old workers' village of the Vila da Fábrica neighborhood, known by the same name, which is part of the city of Camaragibe, member of the Metropolitan Region of Recife and which works as a dormitory city of the state capital. Based on the categories of analysis of the production of space and place, the research brings to light the contradictions arising from the new airs of modernization generated by the implementation of Camará Shopping, in a lived space still marked by the permanence of the old daily manufacturing. With the implementation of the shopping mall as the first stage of the Camará Reserve megaproject, it imposes a new urban dynamic marked by the tendency to increase the value of urban land and to aggravate social and spatial problems. The main objective of the research was to analyze the transformations and socio-spatial changes that occurred in the Vila da Fábrica after the implementation of Camará Shopping, as well as the impacts or forms of resistance present in the daily practices of the residents of the place. Based on the materialistic dialectical approach, the research made use of methodological tools such as: semi-structured interviews and questionnaires; consultation of the public library collection; oral memory of the place; photographic record, among other techniques. It was found that the inauguration of Camará Shopping by a consortium of real estate companies operating essentially in the metropolitan real estate market, has brought positive and negative expectations in the residents of the former working village. In addtion, both mention the offer of more jobs and the valuation of urban land, and fear that the changes underway will further aggravate problems of water supply, traffic congestion, compromising public safety, destruction of stretches of native vegetation, among other problems. The daily life of the place reveals tensions between the traditional and the modern in the face of uncertainties and mistrust in the future.