Vozes silenciadas: história e memória de outras interpretações do processo de interiorização do Campus UFPA no município de Castanhal - PA a partir de 1970

Abstract

The work aims to understand the history of the implementation of the UFPA Campus in the city of Castanhal, from the speeches and narratives of the subjects who experienced the process of interiorization from the 1970s, with emphasis on the period of the experienced military government at UFPA. Relating the past and the present of this trajectory, narrated according to the written documents and the interviewed subjects, another interpretation of the historical process of the institution was promoted, since the recorded history was loaded with documentary absences, referring to the periods of struggles and agreements that were established for the construction of the University in the interior of the State. The locus of the investigation was the Campus / UFPA, established in the city of Castanhal, northeastern microregion of the State of Pará. The research was guided by the following questions: What movements occurred in order to conceive the interiorization of the Campus-UFPA in Castanhal? What were the institutional projects that propelled UFPA to the city? Which subjects participated in the implementation? Did the Military Dictatorship impact the creation policy of the University? The investigation was based on qualitative bibliographic research and the procedures used were based on oral history, with instruments based on interviews and questionnaires, supported by the content analysis technique, which defined the direction of the information collected. The study proved that there are contradictions in most of the registered documents, which punctuate the University's interiorization in the city through the political force of the Federal, State and Municipal governments. In this sense, oral history is confronted with registered official documents, because it pointed to the existence of several institutional projects that propelled UFPA to the city of Castanhal. The Interiorization process took place in the 1970s, driven by many obstacles and conflicts. And there were several elements that mediated the action, in addition to the interference of projects coming from the Rural University Center for Community Action Training (CRUTAC), the Ministry of Education and the Department of Elementary Education (DEF), with the intention of establishing an agreement with UFPA - through the Education Center - and the City Hall, to set up a University campus in the city, considered one of the most developed in the region.