“IT IS A COMMUNITY. IT'S A COMMON THING”. TERRITORIES OF MEMORY AND STRUGGLE FOR POPULAR HOUSING IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON (COARI, 1980/2012)

Abstract

This article seeks to problematize processes of struggle and organization of residents of Coari, a city in the interior of the State of Amazonas, which, based on common experiences of joint efforts articulated from different cultural places in the region, managed to achieve a movement in that municipality social for the possession of an expressive piece of land, free from the floods of the rivers, where they then consolidated the set of popular houses in Bairro do Pêra. Migrants from the countryside to the urban area, former inhabitants of the forest and water, living in rubber extraction sites and floating houses, the oral narrators of this research tell us about their stories, ways of living, working and resisting for the right to City. Memories are revalued here as frontiers of experience and spaces for disputes, which point to different political places and utopias in the presence of a community of workers in the Brazilian Amazon.