Memória, símbolos e representações na configuração socioespacial do Sertão da Ressaca? Bahia

Abstract

Undertow Bacwoods is a denominations that it is present in the documents that deals with the process of occupation and housing in Bahia country cities, comprehending generically, an area of geographic transition between the coastline and undertow backwoods structured around Vitória da Conquista city. This denomination is a space and symbolic reference constituted of multiple representations. The aim of discussing the concepts of territory, place, memory and representations in this article is to search for understanding the configurations of this backwoods, having the inclusion as the main leader axis, and the social space exclusion, the material and immaterial bases, the remaining, the broken, the spaces singularities and temporalities that allows the apprehension of this territory/ place backwoods in the memory and social representations of those who lived/live it. It is understandable that the memory as much the representations are intrinsically related to the process of social space production, so, the approach of the mentioned concepts, specially in the discussion about the backwoods, points to the possibility of a interdisciplinary dialogue, keeping, however, the peculiarity of a geographic look.