The Construction of a Collective Memory of Urban Space: Exploring the Experiences Reported by Cyclists in Recife - Brazil

Abstract

This work explores the construction of a collective memory about the meaning and experience of the use of bicycles in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco - Brazil. As a demarcation of this research, a Facebook user groups' posts were analyzed. Therefore, this study focuses on the experiences and emotions that relate to processes of urban space appropriation. We used the Sociologist Maurice Halbwachs’s Collective Memory theory as the main point of comparison with theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence addressed.