Lugares de memória no tempo presente sobre a Ditadura Civil-Militar (1964-1985) em Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

This work is inserted in the field of studies about the places of memory (NORA, 1993) associated with the civil-military dictatorship, public history, collective memory and social history of the cities. It seeks to demonstrate, from the process of naming the public spaces of memory of the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in the present time, through nomenclatures linked to the dictatorship established in 1964 in the country, that these names “honored” in the streets, squares, avenues, alleys, squares and schools have a history and collective memory in their constitution. Since the alignments to the civil-military dictatorship (with people or symbols that were opposition and resistance to the dictatorship) are intrinsic in their social and political sense. Finally, these permanences of nomenclatures referring to the dictatorship are a result of the failure in the process of “redemocratization” of Brazil and the perpetuity of the official history of the dictatorship.