Redeemed by the past? nostalgic seductions in a contemporany city (Joinville - 1997-2008) / Redimidos pelo passado? seduções nostálgicas em uma cidade contemporânea (Joinville - 1997-2008)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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This work intends to understand, in an essay form, the ways that the inhabitants of the contemporary cities relate themselves with the past, recognizing, in the simplicity of the experienced and tried daily life, the implications of a phenomenon nominated by some theorists as culture of memory. Takes place in the city of Joinville (Santa Catarina)s trajectory between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twentieth first century, the essays presented took the 150th anniversary of this town as beginning in the search for interpretation of the recent processes that have been changing the urban ways of live, as the growing instability of time and the fractures of the living space. In the first essay, the new sensibilities related to the past in the city of Joinville were put in discussion. Going against several documents, with emphasis for some news, reports, editorials and chronicles published in local journals, the intention was to perceive the relations of the inhabitants of this city with the time. In the second essay, the focus were the processes of (re)delineation of the ethnical boundaries that divide Joinvilles daily life, trying to discovery the limits and possibilities of speeches that classified this town as a cosmopolitan city. Intent to the distinct trajectories of two ethnical groups that established, in recent years, their own characteristics in the city the Swiss and the Italian the intention was to present the negotiations, usually tense, that happened in the backstage of the 150th anniversary of Joinville. Oral speeches, produced from interviews with cultural leaders that represent both groups, were connected to the other references that based this work, especially, some practices to give memories a monumental aspect. At the end, some discords that were present in the process of research are presented, proposing some questions, just mentioned in the essays, which deserve more profound studies.

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cidades etnicidade historia cultura e civilização culture of memory cidade contemporânea celebration joinville (sc) memória coletiva comemoração ethnicity joinville cultura de memória contemporary city etnicismo

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