No caminho das águas, na poeira da estrada: cenário rural de Iranduba em face a (re) configuração da Região Metropolitana de Manaus - RMM

Abstract

The creation of Metropolitan Regions has been a trend in the Brazilian scenario, many states are institutionalizing their regions. In turn, the state of Amazonas in the year 2007 created its by the State Complementary Law no. 52/07, establishing the Metropolitan Region of Manaus, consisting initially of 8 municipalities of which Iranduba is a member. A region that differs from other RMs in the country, because it has particularities and singularities not seen in the others, with characteristics that can be visualized in the way it has been configuring its territory and transforming the spaces. But, it is not only the space that is transformed, the daily life of the inhabitants of the localities that are having their metropolitan spaces are also transformed. Thus, the general objective of this dissertation is to investigate how the process of metropolitanization of the RMM in the rural context of Iranduba is configured. The metropolization is a process that goes beyond the limits of the metropolis and occurs in different intensities involving the metropolis and the spaces involved, it is not only the expansion of the metropolis beyond it because it goes through a series of meanings, in which the spaces are also being printed the metropolitan codes, the ways of life and the characteristics of the metropolis even in the spaces considered rural. Iranduba is a metropolitan municipality with rural characteristics, it stands out for its economy focused on agriculture and Oleiro polo is one of the main suppliers of these products that supply the market of Manaus. Iranduba's choice and its metropolitan insertion as object of study was based on several motivations based on the diversity of space production characterized by distinct realities where elements already consolidated in its territory stand out as is the case of its rural characteristics, and with the metropolization of space other elements are emerging in this scenario, among these new elements stand out the housing complexes built since the inauguration of the bridge over the Rio Negro, after the completion of this project were arising several real estate developments in the areas of roads and on the Manuel Urbano highway, localities considered rural. A new that arises in the midst of the old not only in the edified but not lived by those who come to live with a new reality, in it new relations are imposed and their impacts already begin to worry the residents of these localities. Thus, in order to understand these transformations, we have looked at this universe where the metropolization takes place, and based on a theoretical revision on the various aspects related to the production of space and the current restructuring that has been taking place in the place when it is inserted in the context of RMM. Transformations that intensified on the Iranduba road from the year 2011, the socio-spatial configuration of these localities were altered and continue to be modified, and in them are being added new elements that acts in the production of the metropolitan space