Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Maria Cristina Caponero
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2014-05-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno;
Elizabeth Ferreira Cardoso Ribeiro Azevedo;
Iris Kantor;
José Eduardo de Assis Lefevre;
Paulo César Garcez Marins
|
| Advisor: | Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno |
| Abstract | |
Unlike traditional studies about parties conducted by Social History, Sociology or Anthropology, this thesis has as object of study the public parties in the urban area of São Paulo. This is a spatialized study and discussed in light of the impacts of these practices in the city in the long duration, because only in this manner the ruptures and continuities are perceptive. Our initial chronological line is the year 1711, mark of Sao Paulo as town and moment when the metropolis presents a more intense urban life, with a more pronounced social gradient. We analyzed the public parties of mandatory frequency and realization, spatializing their spaces amid the urban and social landscape. We tried to understand their meaning and function for the different groups, glimpsing practices through representations, and conflicts between the lines of the rules and obligations. We interpreted the Empire as the transitional period toward a growing secularization process in the uses of public urban spaces and moment when the parties ceased to be of compulsory realization, exempting residentes from their burden of yore. We tried to show how the Codes of Postures began to face up to the parties, leading in some cases to the loss of their intrinsic symbolic functions and of their space in the urban landscape. Our main contribution lies in the closer examination of the Republican period, when Brazil is declared secular territory, having the Church officially separated itself from the State, but keeping the union at strategic situations and ideologically appropriated to the building and strengthening of ideology and power of the new regime underway. Then, we tried to understand the space of parties and their meanings mid material and social transformations that the city passed by, especially in its central perimeter. We glimpsed a mismatch between the dimension of the material space in transformation and the parties. The downtown area was brutally transformed in volumetry, but it remained very similar in planimetry, becoming small and dominated by some other uses less interested in the major public parties, expelling, retiring or shrinking some of them, overshadowing others. Our final chronological line is the year 1935, mark of the rupture in the way as parties were being treated, ceasing to be controlled by their urban impacts and starting to be faced up by municipality more as recreation than as a problem associated to the own mode of making of the city. Then, from the analysis of ecclesiastical and civil primary sources such as Minutes, Correspondences, Requests of charters and licenses, \"Livros de Tombo\" of the Church and other official sources committed to the interests of whose were in power, we tried to understand the space of the party in the urban landscape of São Paulo city. The case of São Paulo city is one among many others, and the study of the details of the process, with its rhythms sometimes contradictory, with its cadence according to the interests, and with its inevitable mismatches, allowed a glimpse the practices game amid representations, far from being a linear process neither fast and nor without conflicts. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/11737-6 - Popular Parties in the city of São Paulo in Historical Perspectiva: Inventory of Intangible Heritage |
| Grantee: | Maria Cristina Caponero |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |