Pontos de memória: de Política Cultural a Museus em periferias.

Abstract

The following thesis presents an ethnographic research on the community initiatives of Points of Memory that participated in a democratic process for the construction of a cultural public policy in Brazil, based on social museology. The objective of this study is to understand the political and social (re)arrangements that the twelve self-styled “pioneers” initiatives make to maintain their museum processes in the Brazilian peripheries. Territories marked by deprivation and abandonment of effective public policies, where there is a proliferation of all kinds of violence against the place and its people. Reflections on the object of the research took place through the Anthropology of Museums, which provided an interpretation of museum processes in contact with the perception of the representations of pioneer Memory Spots about their realities in their places of existence. Organized into five chapters, the thesis discusses museums in processes that use realities and creative solutions in peripheral urban spaces to register the social memory and safeguard the cultural heritage of the various social groups that live in these territories. Presenting the main public policy guidelines aimed at museums that encouraged these groups to create their museum processes. The pioneering points' initiatives are revisited based on a privileged view of the Terra Firme Memory Spot, in Belem do Para, in which it considered community movements to defend the territorial, social, cultural and political development of the communities they represent. In this ethnographic research, I understand that the pioneering Memory Spots are museums in processes formed by different subjects who enrich themselves as communities, when they develop critical thinking about their realities and organize transformative collective actions in the cities where they take place, based on the active forces of memory. These museum processes come to life within communities, strengthening them as subjects who create, recreate and decide on their realities.