Bento Rodrigues and the memory that the mud did not erase: the awakening to heritage in the (re)construction of identity in the post-disaster context

Abstract

This work aims to examine, from the disaster that occurred in 2015 in Bento Rodrigues, in the city of Mariana-MG, how the idea of heritage is used to construct, reconstruct, and negotiate identities, values, social and cultural meanings in the post-disaster context. From a perspective of intersection of heritage emotions, uses of heritage, nostalgia of heritage and places of memory, the purpose is to apprehend in what way these notions are configured in the actions of struggle for remediation that established from the disaster. We consider all these elements as fundamental components for the knowledgee of how the community of Bento Rodrigues mobilized from an understanding of heritage awakened by the loss of territory and conceived as a mechanism for claiming the right to memory.

Keywords
Bento Rodrigues; Heritage; Memory and identity; Disaster