Recife and its waters: a socio-spatial and environmental story told by iconography and poetry

Abstract

The present work aims to show the socio-spatial formation of the city through the collection of highlights with the poetic literature and the iconographic collection existing in the public libraries of the state, municipality and the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation. To this end, in addition to bibliographic research in the field of history such as methodology, geography and other human sciences, the rich iconographic base of the city of Recife was used, with its numerous artists and intellectuals, from the most diverse areas, who illustrated the city's relationship with its waters. To investigate these nuances still, it was used in a complementary way the work already done and the hypothetical-deductive method discussed in Marconi et al(2017) . It is complemented with the epistemic analysis approach of critical nature, making use of the category of socio-spatial analysis in Santos (1978) and the Environmental Epistemology of Leff (2002). In this way, the reason to question and celebrate the current relationship with water is understood, since the city has a symbiotic relationship with it.