Fallet speaks: the memories of a group of elderly people from a favela in Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the changes that the «Fallet» has been going through over the years, based on the analysis of the narratives of a group of elderly residents, gathered for a group research interview, which thematized the interviewees' memories about the place. After the transcription of the focus group, the narratives were grouped into thematic blocks and analyzed in the light of narrative analysis (Riessman, 2008). His narratives, memories and experiences reveal a strong belonging and identification with the place. Through their narratives, the interviewees have been constructing themselves discursively as memory men, committed to diffusing the places of memory, currently present only in their memories (NORA, 1993).