Military dictatorship memory places in São Paulo and tributes to the worker Santo Dias da Silva

Author(s)

Anaclara Volpi Antonini

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2016-12-09

Examining board members

Simone Scifoni; Isabel Aparecida Pinto Alvarez; Janaina de Almeida Teles

• Advisor: Simone Scifoni

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the purpose of memory places related to repression and resistance to military dictatorship in São Paulo and the mobilizations to identify, preserve, and/or memorialize in a context marked by intense space transformations and at the same time, deficient public preservation and affirmation politics about memory related to violations happened at that time. We articulated Pierre Nora´s concept with contributions of the geographic category of place to understand this points that contradictorily condense, not only the memory of violations and repression, but also the ones related to resistance to dictatorship, being formed as reference frames of this recent past, at risk in the metropolis. We mapped the places listed by Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo in the metropolitan area of this city and analyzed the interventions and experiences that oppose to this abolition process through memorialization initiatives at this places. The each year´s tributes to the worker Santo Dias da Silva in the place where he was assassinated allows us to go deeper in the debate about the topic researched, treating the experiences harnessed to his memory as links to think about memorialization initiatives from production of urban space theory and also as place, and memory place. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/21898-5 - Memory places of the military dictatorship in São Paulo's metropolis
• Grantee: Anaclara Volpi Antonini
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master