História em Quarentena: proposals for a public history in times of pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Paulo Cesar
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Trinidad, Carlos Benitez
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/39016
• topic: História em Quarentena; Public history; Brazil; COVID-19; Pandemic; História em quarentena; Historia pública; Brasil; COVID-19; Pandemia; História em Quarentena; História pública; Brasil; Covid-19; Pandemia

História em Quarentena was a public history project designed to deal with the uncertainties generated by the health crisis resulting from the pandemic of covid-19, proposing to reflect on issues related to the dissemination of historical knowledge. Based on the theoretical-methodological parameters of public history, this article analyzes the main guidelines that marked the História em Quarentena project, in addition to narrating its development and evaluating its results. In this discussion, the perception of success and failure, the importance of public history as a tool to expand the insertion of historical knowledge in the public sphere in times of crisis, and also the challenges of developing such an enterprise in the face of the difficulties created by the pandemic, gain special relevance. The transformations of the initial proposal of the project, which occurred during its development, can act as a key to understand the difficulties that public history has in attracting a wide audience. It is also indicated the need for historians to be careful about the questions posed by the present to facilitate the establishment of dialogues with the society, preventing historiographic productions from circulating only among their equals