Be "Carioca" / Be "Fluminense": The Creation of Identities by the Political-Administrative Borders in South America

Abstract

The creation of territorial identities is based on a spatial historicity associated with political-administrative and economic movements over time and space. One of the most striking features of this creation is the boundary, a limiting mechanism and definition of territorial policy projects, whose agents can and should be identified throughout the academic researches in the areas of social and political sciences. The city-state Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, has a very sui generis history in relation to the creation of its identities that are expressed not only in distinct territories but also in distinct anthropological and sociological perspectives, with a strong spatial impact. Being a Carioca (from the city) or being from Rio de Janeiro state involves space conditions that reinforce the idea that today, facing the world's metropolization, territorial boundaries need to be revised and rethought so that a new condition of belonging to the territories is created and strengthened for the quality of life in environments demographically millionaires of the great metropolis of the world.