Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GABRIEL BARRETO DA SILVEIRA OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : GABRIEL BARRETO DA SILVEIRA OLIVEIRA
DATE: 27/11/2021
TIME: 19:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
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KEY WORDS:

Natal; Manoel Dantas; Space; Progress;

PAGES: 82
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research analyzes the intellectual works of Manoel Dantas about the city of Natal in the early 20th century. His works consists on a series of chronicles, entitled Coisas da terra, in which he addressed some aspects of the city’s daily life, and the conference, Natal d’aqui a cincoenta annos, in which he outlined some projections for the future of the state capital. We consider that, together, these writings created images of the city of Natal in different time periods, which were attempts to stimulate the changes that were seen as necessary by Dantas and the leading group of the state to which he was linked, the Albuquerque Maranhão Family and the Republican Party. We observe actions by this group both in terms of the material transformation of the city, as well as the construction of new representations about it. We found that Manoel Dantas' writings evoked a conception of progress, an idea that was very present on the Western social thought throughout the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. We observed that, in Rio Grande do Norte, like in Brazil and other places in the world, progress was linked to political practices and ideas such as freedom. Manoel Dantas, initialy associated progress with education. Over time, however, we noticed that the Albuquerque Maranhão family started to use progress mainly in reference to the material urban reforms in the city of Natal executed by the group's governors. Dantas, acting as editor-in-chief of the newspaper A Republica and as an intellectual linked to the Republican Party, synthesized and disseminated this narrative in the texts he published, consolidating the appropriation of the idea of progress by Albuquerque Maranhão.

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