"A dance with the living and the dead: time and culture in Brazilian constitutionalism".
Culture, time, constitutionalism
This partial thesis report presents a research path and preliminary results on ways of rethinking agency, the constitution of political subjects and citizenship based on parties and popular entertainment at the turn of the late 19th century to the early 20th century. It seeks to understand how festivities are spaces for recreating everyday life based on the invention of ways to act as a subject in the face of violence and prohibitions on rights. Observing the ways in which these agencies have been historically silenced, one thinks about what unites, in the long term, the living and the dead, past and present of the struggle for rights. To this end, newspapers, police documents and court cases are analysed, as well as interviews and observations of parties and entertainment today. In a proposal of dialogue between the historiography of slavery and post-abolition, constitutionalism and cultural studies, the sources are analyzed less in order to propose a closed narrative than as a way to raise questions to the law.