| About “being rural” |
Distances |
[...] the closer you get to the town, the less Rural the area is [...] (João).
[...] the access to go to the place is hard. (Neide)
[...] 44 or 45 kilometers to the center of São João. (Leandro)
[...] the neighbor is five hundred meters away [...] (Naiara) |
| Communication |
[...] is very backward [post office services]. We depend on the Giarola Post Office, there near the settlement [...] (Giovana)
An antenna very far, to throw to us here. Keeps falling, then there’s no competition (Ezequiel) |
| External view |
The thing is that most people think of the rural area as backward people [...] (Naiara) |
| Community |
It was the people here that planted the grass, we go doing work together, y’ know? (Neide)
[...] my mom had a house over there; opposite my uncle’s house was our house [...] Everybody family . (João)
[...] some houses that keep growing. But they’re few, but is of the family, one got married, just like me. (Ezequiel)
[...] today nobody wants to get together. But when everybody is together is good, makes good parties [...] (Leandro)
[...] What I don’t plant and my neighbor does and we swap and there’s always this relationship of living well together. (Naiara) |
| Knowledge from generation to generation |
[...] knowledge that comes from generation to generation and that today is has little value [...] (Naiara)
Then started to teach the kids to milk the cow [...] (Míriam) |
| Existence of livestock and plantations |
[rural area] is you havin’ a cow, get some milk (João).
[...] for those who want to live from the land [...] (Naiara)
Ahh, all that I plant, do, I sell [...] (Ondina)
There’s plantations that supply São João, they plant yam, deal with cattle, milk. (Giovana)
Yeah, there’s orchard, I deal with the chicken. (Leandro) |
| It is not rural |
[...] I don’t consider, … I think it is a place to plant and almost at the same time it’s turning into a town neighborhood. (Ondina)
Not today [is rural]. [...] there are places much worse than here to call rural area (Neide) |
| It is dying out |
Rural area is really dyin’ out... (João)
[...] if you look today not even this here is rural almost, right? (Ondina) |
| Existing policies |
Government support |
[...] we’re part of that program of family farming [...] (Neide)
[...] to a festivity it gives support. (Leandro)
[.. ] I supply for two state [schools] [...] (Ondina) |
| Garbage collection |
Here the garbage truck comes every week and gets it. (Neide)
[...] There’s a truck that comes and gets, from the municipal government (João)
[...] garbage collection once a week. (Ondina)
Friday is when the garbage man comes [...] (Giovana) |
| Public transportation |
[...] here there’s bus once a month only… (Miriam)
There was no bus here [..] But not now, I have a bus here every hour. (Neide)
[...] the bus from the municipal government, to take the kids [...] (Neide)
There’s the bus. (João)
Bus there’s only from Monday to Friday. (Ondina) |
| Road improvement |
The road a part, [...] you could not get... when it rained you had to go out shoes in hand. (Neide)
[...] there was one time the road crumbled all down, we had to tie the trucks all [...] (Leandro)
The people there gets a hard time with all that dust, the truck passes very close, got it? (Miriam) |
| Necessary policies |
Water supply and sanitation |
[...] what we fight more for [...] is water. (Neide)
[...] there’s cesspool, no treated sewage no nothing, and water, in the case, is cistern or water spring [...] (João)
[...] we make a hole and make the cesspool. (Ondina)
There it is still cesspool [...](Giovana).
There’s no sewage system, here, in the case, the houses all use the cesspool system, there’s no water from the street (supply system), [...] gotta dig a well, that’s it. (Ezequiel) |
| Lighting |
Put up public lighting. (Ezequiel) |
| Leisure and tourism |
This thing of tourism, I think it gives that identity [...] (Giovana)
Here there had to be leisure, for the old guys, for the kids [...] (Soraia)
[...] we already asked for a project to the municipal government for them to put, what do you call it? These [work out] equipment, [...], we’re fighting to see that we get it... (Neide) |
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Here needed a doctor, pediatrician, at least every 15 days [...] (Miriam)
There’s the doctor and the exams we have to do is usually in Resende Costa or Prados. (Neide)
At least one health center to care for the community [...] (João)
Health that we don’t have here. (Leandro) |
| Need of road |
[... ] that pavement there in the street, hell of a dust… Road that if it rains, there’s no getting out [..] (Leandro)
[...] a large part of the estate products is perishable, with that bad road, tends to “rot” [...] (Ronaldo)
This road of ours is bad. ‘cause you havin’ a good path, [...] you can even sell and take (Ondina)
[...] if the road is bad the bus starts to break down. (Ezequiel)
[...] the greatest need for the subdivision today is the road, [...] (Naiara)
Even the means of transport is difficult. (Neide)
[the road] now in the rainy period gets even more rotten [...] (Giovana) |
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Source: Authors’ files, developed in Google Maps, 2019.