ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL AND SPACIAL RELATIONS IN CAMAQUÃ MINE, IN CAÇAPAVA OF SUL- RIO GRANDE DO SUL

Abstract

Social activities constantly imply a series of transformations. And will the Geographic Space the result of such a reality. After 130 years of mining, Camaquã Mines, in Caçapava municipality of South- RS, keep in structure, different times of capitalist logic, where the pace of production determines the socio-spatial behavior. Amid the ruins of villages and buildings of Companhia Brasileira do Cobre, 150 families reside remnants of times when copper dinamizava entire structure, where it once had 6,000 inhabitants in the Camaquã Mines. The objective of this work, it is an analysis of the socio-spatial relationships observed during cuprifera exploration period observed at the stage of Companhia Brasileira do Cobre-CBC, between the years 1950 and 1990. As a methodological procedure questionnaires and interviews were applied qualitative both the former residents as the current s residents on site. Checking the results, one can perceive a social relationship deeply marked by capital organization, a distinctly stratified social fabric under a permanent control by the owners of the means of production under the working class. Such control, did not give up only in the structure of the villages, but especially in the world of relationships between people. This socio-spatial segregation, the identifying features of the local population that still exists after twenty years of copper mining these are the main focus of this work.