A pobreza urbana em ParnaÃba, Piauà (1890-1920)

• Autor(a) principal: Alexandre Wellington dos Santos Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFC
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=20498
• topic: Cidade de ParnaÃba; PiauÃ; HistÃria Social da Pobreza; City of ParnaÃba; HISTORIA

This dissertation analyzes the âarts of resistanceâ of the poor people in Parnaiba city, PiauÃ, between 1890 and 1920. In the first chapter we broach dimensions of Parnaibaâs history, in which we can observe the search for a city pattern inspired by the European urban model, translated in the works of âinfrastructure of progressâ, placing tensions between the dominant and subaltern ones. In the second chapter we discuss the daily life and housing of the poor people in their quest for survival in insanitary suburbs, a âlabyrinth of huts and hovelsâ, sometimes reached by the IgaraÃu River floods. The third chapter socially situates the disease and methods of isolation, demonstrating that certain diseases affected a specific part of the Parnaiban society: the working poor. For this, we consider essential to understand the hygienist discourse, according to theories from that period. The fourth chapter observes instruction practices for poor people in Parnaiba and the struggle against illiteracy and the desire to correct positions that are unfavorable to the idea of progress and modernity. These are public or private schools where teachers strive to teach, usually in some precarious room of their own house. They are Catholic schools where fear of God is preached. They are night schools of the Mutualistic Associations, where they teach many trades and principles of the workerâs morals. It is in the School of Marine Apprentices where the promise of a better life is dissolved by its precariousness and rigid military discipline. In the fifth chapter we analyze the popular, civic and religious festivities, carnival and football in Parnaiba, those moments when the poor workers celebrate in novenas, drumming, or when the neighborhood team wins the âball gameâ, almost always awakening the watchful and moralizing look of the many instances of power and control.