Análise de discurso e relações de poder: a rota das charqueadas em Pelotas/RS e o peso colonial

Abstract

Cultural Patrimonies are considered spaces for education and preservation of cultures and traditions, therefore, they have a significant function in society, since they help in the construction of memories and identities. The present study starts from the observation of what is exposed and the experience of what is lived in two historical farms belonging to the Charqueada Route, namely: Charqueada São João and Charqueada Santa Rita. Located in the city of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul, both were scenery of the Charque Cycle and Slavery in Colonial Brazil. Currently, they are maintained as tourist attractions of the city. The patromony analyzed here, like any other institution, is constituted by power relations and, consequently, ends up reproducing the version of history and the memories of dominant social groups. To analyze the forms of expository discourse that emerge in this space, having as its central issue the dimension on race relations, the theoretical foundation is based on the articulation of concepts such as: social representations, memory and power, as well as other intellectual contributions that ethno-racial studies and decolonials studies provided for sociological theory. Through Discourse Analysis as a tool of understanding and being viewed in a broad sense, as Michel Foucault proposes, and Ethnography as a method for greater immersion and perception of the field, I intend to understand how the organization of the given space and the characterization of discourse occurs. as well as the social composition of the visiting public.