Cartografia social do Cabula: uma solução mediadora para construção e difusão do conhecimento geo-histórico

Abstract

The thesis titled "Social Cartography of Cabula: a mediating solution for the construction and dissemination of geo-historical knowledge" emphasizes the development of an Interactive Social Cartography model as a powerful tool for practical activities in Community-Based Tourism and society, as well as the socio-historical cartographic sequence of the Cabula area as a means of representing and connecting the past with the contemporary. Created with the general objective of developing a model for representing and disseminating local geo-historical knowledge, based on the principles and foundations of social cartography, through strategies of community articulation and mobilization. The "tensions" for defining the collective construction modeling were established by describing the social context of the city's expansion from the colonial period, through the Modernism of the 1970s, to the present day. A historical process description was conducted to understand the present, detailing the first recorded occupations, the main types of occupation at each moment, and their resistances to remaining in space, correlating and representing them with changes in Cabula's spatial configuration, using maps and cartograms that interact with the texts. The adopted methodology was Design-Based Research (DBR), which is based on praxiology, interdisciplinarity, and socio-interactionism, combining the advantages of qualitative and quantitative research to solve concrete problems identified in a given social context. It was supported by technical and epistemological concepts, among which are the principles of Social Cartography, Geographic Information Systems, Socioconstructivism, Polyphony, Dialogism, Ontologies, Geographic Space, and Community-Based Tourism. The results presented, such as cognitive design, modeling, participatory development of technological solutions, and application analysis, confirm the proposed thesis that the applicability of Geography, History, and Tourism contributed to establishing social dimensions and to disseminating and representing knowledge among diverse audiences.