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- Convenor:
-
Jean Faustino
(UFSCar)
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- Location:
- UP 4.212
- Start time:
- 11 April, 2013 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
This panel seeks to bring together research addressing complex issues related to the contemporary debate about "identity" in Latin American countries. Thus discussions about art, music, migration, memory and heritage are contemplated.
Long Abstract:
There is a diversity of national experiences in Latin America on the processes of identity construction, which reflect the specificities of each
country and can be analyzed comparatively. States, social groups, international and national organizations, governmental or not, are part of
these scenarios. The main objective of this panel is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue amongst academic researchers on topics
such as Latin American art, music, migration, tourism, heritage and memory. Research should focus on the complex contemporary debate about "identity"
in Latin America and its impact on the social groups involved in such dynamics.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Jean Faustino (UFSCar)
Paper short abstract:
Within a few decades in the 20th century Brazil went from being a country with the majority of its population living in rural area to be a predominantly urban country.
Paper long abstract:
Based in this historical fact of national scenario transformation, we conducted a research to analyze this phenomenon and the consequent process of countryman integration in the urban environment through the songs of that time.
This analysis - that we have been performing in the sociology doctorate program in the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) - is concerned with a typical music genre of the Brazilian southwest region: "moda de viola" which integrates, together with other genre and beats, the "caipira music".
Due to the defining characteristic of narrating events in the countryman´s reality, now migrant, the "moda de viola" is a vantage point to analyze and comprehension of dilemmas and tensions in the integration process which reflections aided to define the national capitalism characteristics.
Leila Aguiar (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Paper short abstract:
This paper aims contribute to the public policies regarding Brazilian cultural heritage preservation, with special focus on tourism development in heritage cities, subject with which I have worked since the finish of my doctoral thesis.
Paper long abstract:
The creation of a Brazilian national heritage, starting with the establishment of the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service ("Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional"), in 1937, was part of a wider process of the construction of a Brazilian national identity. The work of the agency led to the conservation of urban sites which, particularly from the 1960s onwards, were converted into areas dedicated to the development of commercial tourism. In such areas, the transformation of natural, historical and local cultural characteristics into elements of the sale of tourism as a product is apparent, and there has been a convergence of the views expressed by conservationists and those expressed by the representatives of the tourism trade. The views expressed present tourism as the solution to many of the problems inherent to the conservation of individual buildings and sites which are considered to be local, national or world heritage. In order to analyze this process we shall examine documentation produced by SPHAN and UNESCO in the period between the years 1937 and 1988, including reports, inventories, correspondence, photos, and journals, legislation, regulations and international agreements and printed guides of heritage cities