Belém também é afro: tensões discursivas na Amazônia urbana

Abstract

This work seeks to penetrate the theme 400 years anniversary of Belém, celebrated in 2016, to understand how the construction of the discourse on the anniversary of the city takes place, as well as the themes, statements and other discourses with which it draws neighborhoods and relations. For this, we will look for materialities in the city press, drawing a parallel between the years 1966 and 2016, in order to characterize the discourse in its movement in two moments of commemoration of the city. Finally, let's look for political groups that have fled to an official celebration of the party. Thus, we will conduct an ethnographic research with a group that compose the Afro-religious community of Belém, trying to understand which meanings such group attributes to the city's birthday party. Our theoretical-methodological contribution is based on discourse analysis, especially in Michael Foucault’s archeology of knowledge, as well as in the use of this methodology in the study of media materialities in Maria do Rosário Gregolin. Our field research also includes Clifford Geertz’s interpretation of the cultures, Maissimo Canevacci’s urban ethnography and Alessandro Portelli’s oral history. The main objective is, therefore, to demonstrate the discursive tensions that unfold in the urban Amazon during the commemoration of Belém's birthday, demonstrating its political and relational character among different projects that reverberate in themes such as citizenship and the right to the city.