Trajetórias do imaginar: migrações de afetos, memórias e sentidos

Abstract

The trajectories of imagining are related to the movement between affective and creative movements, through a framework of mnemonic images resulting from affections and past converted into experience, among migratory routes of a family life of Brazilian Northeastern emigrants residing in Roraima. This context serves as the basis to visualize the symbolic framework, which moves between the experiences of the elderly, grandparents and the appropriation of children, grandchildren, characterizing the intergenerational focal group of this study. The geographical migration, both affective and symbolic, experienced by the group offer images to reflect on the trajectories of the human imagining, the object of this study, whose general objective is to understand the relevance of intergenerational relations to the development of the child's imagination and reflect on the set of memories which became noticeable through the narratives of tales and stories of lives of family members. The objective is to also prepare a theoretical design of cultural, affective, and cognitive dimensions which involve the imagining of the child. It also aims to analyze the imagination development in the context of non-formal education, with the purpose of assessing data for a dialogue with educative practices in the school environment. According to the perspective of a dialogical method involving strategies of ethnography and life stories, the work from speeches of family members develops, presenting the empirical context of the work to forward a theoretical dialog with the concepts of Tuan's topophilia, Bachelard's imagination material, Benjamin's experience, and Vygotsky's mediation. These main voices are conductors to discussions about the categories that have emerged in the field, which are, affection, past, and migration and such empirical-theoretical weaving results in lightening the relationship between affection and imagination and in contributing to the imagining exercise to recreate human meanings.