Geografia, políticas públicas de cultura e cartografia(s): uma reflexão sobre a experiência brasileira neste início de século XXI

Abstract

In Brazil, the first decade of the 21st century was a time of debates, construction, institutionalization, implementation, and implementation of a structured public policy for culture in a systemic and participatory manner. Mechanisms and management tools for this policy were designed to guarantee and strengthen democracy, cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue. Through the National Culture Plan (PNC) and the configuration of the National Culture System (SNC), a broad and complex management architecture was structured, which has as an instrument for generating data and information for the production of cultural cartography the National System of Cultural Information and Indicators (SNIIC). In this work, our objective was to analyze the production of data and cultural information in the cultural cartography generated by Brazil's public culture policy, its contribution, and its limits to processes that reveal a geographical dimension in/of the diversity of Brazilian cultural manifestations. Following a path where different notions and concepts such as culture, public policies, cartography, and territory intersect, we chose to work with an applied methodology of qualitative nature, producing methodological experiments for cultural cartography processes that directly contribute to the construction of public culture policy and enabling geographical analysis. We found that Brazil's territorial diversity and its "opaque territories," become obstacles to the full realization of this policy.