Relations betwween subjects in Campina do Monte Alegre after the implementation of UFSCar

Abstract

Based on a materialistic Discourse Analysis in the interface with authors such as Freud and Derrida, this article aims to contribute to studies on the discursive relations engendered in the city, seeking to understand how established and new residents represent the city from the implantation of UFSCar Lagoa do Sino. The assumption is that the city is a material place in which discursive processes (clashes, struggles, empathy etc.) are produced. The hypothesis is that there is an imaginary division between the city and its established inhabitants, on the one hand, and the university and the new residents, on the other, resulting in gestures of hostility and disgust among the subjects. The corpus consists of four interviews done with two established residents and two new residents. The result pointed out that, although there is an attempt at segregation, there are loopholes for possible changes in position, which allows a space for conviviality and relations between the self-other in the city.