About the culture that can be planned: the UNESCO, cultural policies and Brazilian social thought

• Grant number: 14/13635-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: September 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz
• Grantee: Caio Gonçalves Dias
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/23638-1 - UNESCO and cultural policies in Brazil: social thought, development and colonialism (1966-1988), BE.EP.PD 15/17744-8 - The Unesco and the construction of the idea of cultural policies in Brazil: political agencies, scientific knowledge and social thought (1966-1988), BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The central aim of this research is to understand the movements that made UNESCO adopt a concept of culture of anthropological inspiration, specially on its work on "cultural policies" from the 1960s. In order to further understand the way this idea was eventually appropriated in national contexts and how these contexts also impacted the construction of this notion, it is proposed to take the relationship between Brazil and UNESCO as the main focus of study. It is not case, therefore, to consider Brazil (only) as some kind of laboratory, but to take into account the way a Brazilian social thought impacted the construction of this conceptual framework, in a circular motion. This argument gains eloquence if we consider that intellectuals as Josué Montello, Gilberto Freyre, Arinos Afonso de Mello Franco Aloísio Magalhães, Celso Furtado, among others, held important positions in state executive bodies responsible for drafting the cultural policy of the country. It will be necessary, then, to map the changes in the core concepts operated in this context - such as race, citizenship, social participation and development - and the role of intellectuals who worked directly to give effect to such constructions. A concern about the ways in which certain concepts of social science are established, as well as their uses, permeates the investigation. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CAIO GONÇALVES DIAS. O Planejamento da Cultura: Políticas Culturais, Unesco e Brasil (1966-1988). Dados, v. 66, n. 1, 2022-06-15. (17/23638-1, 14/13635-7, 15/17744-8)