The city of Recife in the fourth Republic: culture, intellectual sociability and the underdevelopment issue

• Grant number: 17/26955-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2018
• End date: April 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Francisco Napolitano de Eugenio
• Grantee: Fabio Silva de Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/24216-9 - The city of Recife in the Fourth Republic: culture, intellectual sociability and the underdevelopment issue, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze the intellectual sociability in the city of Recife during the years 1946-1964, as well as the perception of the underdevelopment as a social and cultural experience. The present research will be based on the vision of a given intellectual elite about the social and economic underdevelopment of the Brazilian Northeast region. For that, a wide documentary corpus will be used. These documents belong to the main institutions among those which have organized discussions and projects about the underdevelopment in Brazil's Northeast region; they are: Instituto Joaquim Nabuco de Pesquisas Sociais, Universidade do Recife e Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste. Furthermore, we will also analyze a wide documentation from the Movimento de Cultura Popular do Recife as well as the cultural section from the following newspapers: Jornal do Comércio e Diário de Pernambuco. Based on this corpus, we will try to understand what was the role of this left wing intellectual elite in the construction of a historically meaningful cultural network in Brazil. By choosing this approach, we're faced with the following questions: is it possible to infer a common profile from these intellectuals in this half century period in Recife? What was their role in the revolutionary and reformist projects of the fourth republic? Can they be considered a counter-elite due to their cultural production? A prosopographical approach of these groups of intellectuals will shape this political history. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOUZA, Fabio Silva de. Sensitivity, formalization, reflection: poverty as an intellectual experience in Recife in the middle of the 20th century. 2023. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.