Candangoianos: memórias entrelaçadas nas travessias dos universitários goianos em Brasília (UnB/Plano Piloto)

Abstract

The discussion about tradition and modernity is present in the relationship between two cities, Goiânia and Brasília, almost always qualified as disparate and identified with contrasting codes, which are reflected in the collective identities and discursivities assumed and/or attributed to (traditional) Goians and Brasilienses (modern). The objective of this article is to analyze tensions and identity concessions present in the relationship established between migrant students from Goiás and natives from Brasília in their territories of multidimensional disputes in the context of localist (glocal) globalization. The method of participant observation was adopted with groups of residents of Asa Norte near the National University of Brasília (UnB), in 2005, characterized by a specific situation: the migration to the Federal District to take undergraduate courses. These are in permanent multisituational transit, taking experiences with them in their trajectories and transforming the physical and imaginary spaces that receive and/or repel them; they also represent broad social collectivities, at a regional and local level, which allow us to think about the theme of Brazilianness(ies) from regional perspectives of collective memories and non-hegemonic urban histories – from the Goiânia-Brasília axis. The emergence of complex vital networks of compadrios by fellow countrymen and contemporaries of housing and mobility by students from Goiás points to different degrees of adherence and psychosocial conflict (intertwining) of processes of resilience and identity resignification of regional origin (Goiânia and other cities in the state of Goiás ) in the geographic destination (Brasília). The discovery by the researcher, about a family memory related to the construction of Brasília, brings a component of oral history and collective unconscious, which is incorporated into the research for its benefit, perhaps because it is its most archetypal unfolding, in addition to a historical fact little analyzed by grand causal narratives written by the winners of “History”.