Research Area 1

 

Culture, Preservation and Identities 

 

This brings together research that involves discussions about preservation and identities. It is focused on the investigation of the main issues that cover preservationism as a social project and related to power structures: plots of the intentionality of preservationist choices and exclusions, forms of construction, and identity belonging. Preservation and identities are considered here as statements of disputed projects, from which one can think of constructed identities and preservation processes as legitimized by specific historical-social contexts. To this end, it contemplates the process of preservation and identities of the artistic heritage in its material and imagetic visualities in a broad aspect when discussing processes of objectification and visual allegory. This line of research considers the artistic heritage expressed in constructive traits present in urban and rural environments and its collection in written and literary documents, sculpture, painting and cinema, as well as in the intangible manifestations that encompass traditional festivals. In relation to the collections, it brings together investigations that deal with the role played by the archives as identity builders, their relationship with the State, cultural preservation policies and the various social uses that can be made of the records. The nature of files and their organization and access, ways to manage choices and intentionalities, organizing permissions and prohibitions in patrimonial processes.

 

 

Research Area 2

 

Heritage Education and Heritage Management 

 

It brings together research that deals with heritage management and its developments, especially those related to heritage education. The line welcomes research that deals with cultural goods, their historical-social transmission, in addition to the various contexts and practices of patrimonialization, museification and preservation, as well as the public policies of cultural goods in their various forms, through the frameworks of memory and transmission processes. Based on research that deals with culture as a privileged means to access citizenship and reduce social exclusion, the line turns to research that deals with the planning, elaboration, development, management and advice of tangible and intangible cultural assets, memory collections, museums and culture centers. Despite the concerns focused on management and patrimonialization processes, the line places special emphasis on the silences and exclusions of the identity and patrimonial construction process, such as the gentrification of cities and the erasure of traces that deny social belonging to minority groups such as the black population. Likewise, there is an emphasis on research that deals with discussions on corporealities and subaltern ways of treating preservation, class analysis and power relations. Based on formal and non-formal educational processes of heritage education, the line also brings together investigations that discuss proposals for discussion and intervention in heritage education with training and dissemination actions considered from the dynamics of their localities.