Memory and contemporary city: the feminization of old age
International Journal of Development Research
Memory and contemporary city: the feminization of old age
Received 11th September, 2019; Received in revised form 28th October, 2019; Accepted 19th November, 2019; Published online 30th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Neusilene da Costa Monteiro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This essay results from a literature review and aims to reflect on the collective memory of older women about their social role. Thus, it assesses the importance of anchoring memory in a social context, in this case, the urban space and considers collective memory as a valuable resource for the reintegration of older women in the city and in claiming their social role. Individuals adhere to the space in which they live, this fact enables memories to be perpetuated and reconstructed over time. To verify this phenomenon, it was used as theoretical basis, above all, the contributions legacy by Maurice Halbwachs in the field of collective memory, as well as collaborations of theoreticians of geographic science related to the city category and authors who deal with his writings on the elderly woman.
