Banca de DEFESA: FERNANDA LIMA DA SILVA

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STUDENT : FERNANDA LIMA DA SILVA
DATE: 13/12/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZTc3NmQ2NTMtZjkzNy00YWEyLTllODctYzYxNmNkNmI5N
TITLE:

The odd and the ordinary: a counter archive of citizenship and Brazilian constitutionalism (Pernambuco, 1870-1920)

KEY WORDS:

citizenship; constitutionalism; culture; racism; popular festivities; archive

PAGES: 325
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates the disputes over citizenship carried out by ordinary women and men, aiming to pose questions to the doxa of Brazilian constitutionalism, that is, to the theoretical common sense that informs how the field imagines and represents national legal culture. The goal was to create a counter-archive of citizenship, that is, an archive that challenges a different memory of citizenship in Brazil. To this end, using popular festitivies, toys, and amusements as a device, a "methodological game" was established, through which various subjects and scenes were accessed and related, archived in newspapers, legal processes, police documents, texts by folklorists and memoirists, among other sources. The festivities were chosen as a device due to its potential to lead to spaces traditionally not explored by the history of law and Brazilian constitutionalism. Based on the snapshots of everyday life thus captured, the study analyzed ways of facing the structural precariousness to which these men and women were subjected. Five elements were selected to think about citizenship: equality, space, voting, work, and people. Reflections on equality run throughout the work, particularly in the analysis of discourse about the experience of exclusion as a fundamental aspect of "the problem of citizenship" in the country. The discussion of space, present in the first chapter, is proposed through a re-examination of the public-private dichotomy, made possible by the ways in which Gilberto Freyre constructs house and street, but also by the interlocutors in the research. The second chapter addresses the idea that the right to vote has historically been weakly or poorly exercised by the people, excluded from deliberative instances. To this end, it follows two men described as "brutes" and "thugs" and their participation in the 1884 elections in Recife. Other subjects, represented as "vagrants" and "troublemakers," in their movements between the worlds, here seen as blurred, of order and disorder, provide insights for thinking, in the third chapter, about the construction of the worlds of work through lexicons that do not always reproduce "established" forms of organization, such as trade unions and political parties. The fourth chapter seeks to reflect on the idea of the people, a dimension that is assumed but rarely confronted by constitutionalists. For this, it returns to a dialogue with Freyre, observing how festival and kitchen provide important elements for the construction of the author's argument about the national foundation. Freyre’s idea of the "encounter" of races is explored through the violence against the bodies of Black and Indigenous women that it engenders. Focusing on archival scenes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Pernambuco, the work contrasts them with more contemporary scenes offered by popular toys. This spiraling temporality seeks to explore the dynamics of the posthumous life of slavery that shape relations between the denial of the memory of the dead and the denial of citizenship for the living.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ADRIANA DE RESENDE BARRETO VIANNA - UFRJ
Externa à Instituição - ALLINE TORRES DIAS DA CRUZ - UFBA
Presidente - 1952365 - CAMILA CARDOSO DE MELLO PRANDO
Interno - 1863338 - EVANDRO CHARLES PIZA DUARTE
Externa à Instituição - THULA RAFAELA DE OLIVEIRA PIRES - PUC - RJ