Hacer futuro con el pasado: an investigation on the oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de Habana (1934-1964)

• Grant number: 20/07833-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2021
• End date: December 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Atique
• Grantee: Gabriel Dias de Menezes
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The goal of this research is to analyze and better understand the bibliographic production of La Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de Habana, between 1934 and 1964. The investigation intends to better understand the role of this entity in debates about the preservation of cultural heritage in Havana, searching for the role of the historian in this process, as well as the main debates on the formulation of preservation policies in the capital of Cuba. Focusing on 1959 as the axis of pre and post-revolution Havaneira experience, the project here presented tries to understand, preliminarily, the debates about the relationship between nationalism, revolution, and heritage in the Latin American environment.(AU)