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

• Grant number: 19/24216-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: March 02, 2020
• End date: March 01, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Francisco Napolitano de Eugenio
• Grantee: Fabio Silva de Souza
• Supervisor: Paulo Teixeira Iumatti
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/26955-8 - The city of Recife in the fourth Republic: culture, intellectual sociability and the underdevelopment issue, BP.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)