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Weaveeing the morning: history of the Central Directory of the Students of the Unicamp (1974/1982)

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Author(s):
Mateus Camargo Pereira
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
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Examining board members:
Vera Lúcia Sabongi De Rossi; Luiz Carlos Barreira; Patrizia Piozzi; Maria Ribeiro do Valle; Eloisa de Mattos Höfling
Advisor: Vera Lúcia Sabongi De Rossi
Abstract

The aim of this study is to present some initial reflections about the history of the Unicamp's student' union, to comprehend the student movement since its beginning there, highlighting the conflict between its main flags (between the student' representatives that ran for election, including the ones that won and the ones that lost) in the election process of the first four years of the student' union at Unicamp and its outcomes, from 1974 to 1982. In March, 1974, happened the first mass movement of the student' movement, it was against the military dictatorship "The strike of the humanity studies". It was when a student' union started to be required at Unicamp. The year of 1982 corresponded to the ending of the first cycle of four student' union' representative' groups : Tecendo A Manhã; Sair dessa Maré; Força Viva e Unidade e Ação, all of them connected to the group Ação Popular (AP). The following were this research study purposes: 1. To get a hold, organize and publicize documents about this study theme from various origins. This object generated a volume II with the primary fonts and attachments; 2. To comprehend the Unicamp' student' union historical process and the peculiarities its development (Chapter I); 3. To comprehend the students movement coordinated by Student' Union as a part of a wider process in the Brazilian society during the military dictatorship (Chapter II); 4. To reflect about the conflict between the main flags that the student' representatives that ran for election stood for during the election process that was coordinate by the Student' Union (Chapter III). The theoretical-methodological references were mainly based on the cultural history historians focused on the opposition, dissidence tradition and on the democracy debate, such as C. Hill, E. P. Thompson, E. Hobsbawn and J. Le Goff. A wide bibliographical revision about the theme was made in order to insure the dialogue between the documents, as well as a search on primary sources produced mainly by students themselves, that can be found in following archives: State Archive (AESP), Edgard Leuenroth Archive (AEL/Unicamp), and Unicamp's integrated Archive System (SIArq). The Unicamp student's movement participated intensely in the democratic freedom recovering movement inside and outside Unicamp. Inside the University they also engaged in a campaign for studying fairer conditions - student' residence, student' restaurant, student' transportation - all subsidized. During the analyzed period the student' movement at Unicamp created political instruments for the students to participate trough hand-outs, open meetings, public manifestations, cultural manifestation. For those activities they could use a house called "Casa dos Cas". They joined the national student's meeting (ENE) and the debates to recover (after the dictatorship) the state and national Student' Union (UEE's and UNE). Influenced by the social transformation ideas brought by student activists connected to opposition groups, these students contributed to the parties "PT" and "PMDB" when the military dictatorship ended in Brazil and many parties where legalized. This process had an important political and cultural role in the recent history of Brazil within the student movement are also important western intellectuals, surrounded by the "1968" movement flags that moved from campus to campus (AU)