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In this paper, I interpret the relationship between abandonment and remembrance based on possibilities for re-signifying the Perus Portland Cement Factory. Abandoned since the 1970s, the facilities of the bankrupt Companhia Brasileira de Cimento Portland are today the object of cultural actions organized by social movements in Perus, a district in...
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... this question in mind, I analyze how the actions of a political-cultural collective counteract the erasure of the workingclass memory of the Cement Factory. The Comunidade Cultural Quilombaque is a nonprofit organization that emerged in 2005 from the initiative of a group of young residents of Perus, a peripheral neighborhood in the northwest zone of São Paulo (Figure 1), characterized by the worst socio-economic and cultural indicators (Quilombaque, n.d.). According to the Map of Inequality (Rede Nossa São Paulo, 2022), Perus ranks second in maternal mortality rates among the city's districts and is among the top ten districts for violence against women and cases of femicide. ...
