O Caminho de Sumé: as políticas públicas brasileiras para o Patrimônio Cultural no Mercosul (2003-2006)

• Autor(a) principal: Lodi, Caroline dos Reis
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15620
• topic: Cultural Economics; Tangible Cultural Heritage; Public policy; Regional integration; Development; Política Cultural Externa Brasileira; Mercosul Cultural; Economia da Cultura; Patrimônio Cultural Tangível; Desenvolvimento Socioeconômico; Política cultural Brasil; Patrimônio cultural Brasil; Integração latino-americana; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL::RELACOES I?INTERNACIONAIS, BILATERAIS E MULTILATERAIS

This paper aims to examine how public policies, focused on material or tangible cultural heritage, may result in benefits of social and economic developments for the country that promotes them, taking as a case study the Brazilian public policies for this field in Cultural Mercosur, during the first government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. An original concept of the French Revolution, the cultural heritage remained for nearly two centuries as a common good, charged of values of unity and national identity. In mid-twentieth Century, the complaints for representation of the different cultures during decolonization process and the spread of democracy and cultural diversity discourses engendered the ampliation of heritage concept, which has passed to embrass cultural manifestations and representations, popular and regional, tangible and intangible. At the same period, the studies about Cultural Economics became systematic in many countries, but they only gained the multilateral arena at the dawn of twenty-first Century. Understood, in according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) classification, as a cultural industry, material cultural heritage represents a potential source of welfare and financial resources. On Mercosur bloc, culture was officially recognized as a propulsion element towards regional integration with Mercosur Protocol of Cultural Integration assignment in 1996. In 2003, with the election of Lula president and the launch of the National Culture Plan, the heritage s thematic gained force on the national scene. Despite the fact of Mercosur Cultural s projects present deficit in terms of implementation, Lula s public policies reinforced the role of the State in the sector. The paradigms of his foreign policy as the priority given to the relationship with the neighbours in South America and the compliance with international guidelines through reciprocal multilateralism also reflected on programs to cultural heritage on the bloc as a way to improve the integration process and as a tool to reach the desired socioeconomic development and the international insertion, according to the logic of the Cultural Economics.