Mapas sensíveis nos territórios abandonados de estações férreas na fronteira Brasil-Uruguai

Abstract

The research maps and investigates the territories created by the abandonment of railway stations, a process that has been accentuated since the 1980s, in the twin cities of Jaguarão-Rio Branco and Santana do Livramento-Rivera, on the Brazil-Uruguay border. The aim was to understand the urban practices and the contemporary relationship with the railway heritage. Through the sensitive cartographic method, which explores the lived experience as processual, combined with an ethnographic perspective, which proposes an immersion in the field, the rupture body-city and the perception of a sensitive abandonment in these territories became evident. Our walks opened new ways of reading the city, and the prevalence of the importance of speech, of listening, of pause, of silence, as a powerful way to feel and experience the places through our sensibility.