The heritage desires of society through social representations

ABSTRACT

The article discusses the need for society’s participation in actions aimed at preserving the cultural heritage, from the use of the Theory of Social Representations, devised by social psychologist Serge Moscovici, as a possibility of incorporating the interests of a particular population in the preparation of inclusive public policies. The research analyzed data from a form applied to 898 people, from all neighborhoods of the city of Joinville, the largest city in the state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. The data was automatically sent to the database as it was collected. The analysis of the data shows that the interests of the population revolve around the articulations between Cultural Heritage and History having repercussions on the quality of life that is associated with nature and with parks and squares as assets to be preserved.

KEYWORDS:

• Social representations
• public policies
• cultural heritage
• cultural landscape

Acknowledgements

We thank the Municipal System of Support for Culture- Simdec/Joinville and the Research Support Fund, of the University of the Region of Joinville - Univille/SC/Brazil, for the support and funding of this research.

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Notes

1. Tombamento is a legal act of preservation and safeguarding of Brazilian heritage assets instituted by Decree-Law 3866 of November 29, 1941. (Decree-Law 3866/1941).

2. The big house that was built in 1870 to be the administrative headquarters of the Colônia Dona Francisca was never a palace. It was named after François Phillipe d’Orleans, Prince of Joinville, in France, and Francisca Carolina, Brazilian Princess, the legal heirs of the land that was colonized.

3. Sambaquis are shell mounds built by fisherman-hunter-gatherer societies that lived in the region between 6,000 and 1,000 years ago, approximately. Among the shells there are several other remains such as burials. The protection of archeological sites in Brazil is given by Federal Law 3.924/61, and by actions of the Iphan.

4. The Research called Social Representations about the Cultural Heritage of Joinville-RSPCJ was conducted between 2017 and 2018 with support from the Municipal System of Support for Culture – Simdec and the Research Support Fund of the University of the Joinville Region.

5. Currently the Brazilian education system is divided into: Infant School (0 to 6 years old); Elementary School (compulsory, from 1st to 9th grade); High School (3 years, it is a right) and Higher Education (optional). In the research we used the correspondences to the old system, which many interviewees over the age of 24 had attended.

6. The minimum wage in Brazil in 2018 was R$937.00 (nine hundred and thirty-seven reais), equivalent to U$ 296.51 (two hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-one cents).

7. In 1992, by Municipal Decree n. 6,960, the Zoobotanical Municipal Park became part of the Morro do Boa Vista Conservation Unit, with an area of 17,000 m2 (Stimamiglio 2002), inserted in the urban area of the city.

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Sandra Paschoal Leite de Camargo Guedes

Sandra Paschoal Leite de Camargo Guedes, Graduated, Master and Doctor in History from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo and post-doctorate in Museology from the Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa. She is a professor and researcher at the University of the Region of Joinville, in the History course and in the Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage and Society. At the same University, she has already held the positions of Director of Education, Dean of Graduate Studies, Research and Extension and Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Cultural Heritage and Society. She is coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Cultural Heritage and Regular Individual Member of the International Council of Museums-ICOM-BR and of the National Association of History Researchers. She works in the areas of History and Cultural Heritage, more specifically in the Representations and Museums line.

Maria Luiza Schwarz

Maria Luiza Schwarz, Graduated in Geography from the University of the Joinville Region, specialization in Geography from Université Lumière Lyon II and Ph.D. in Geography from Université de Montreal. She has done post-doctoral studies at the Université de Montréal and at the University of the Region of Joinville. She was Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande-UFCG, Campus Cajazeiras from 2010-2014. Since 2014 she has been a collaborating professor at the University of the Region of Joinville, in the master’s and Doctorate in Cultural Heritage and Society. She has experience in the area of Human Geography, working mainly on the following topics: Representations, Representations in Geography, Social Representations, Biodiversity, Brazilian Biomes, Values on the Environment and Environmental and Social Impacts. She participates in the GESTAR Research Group: Territory, Work and Citizenship (Federal University of Paraíba). She is part of the editorial team of Revista Caminhos de Geografia.

Cibele Dalina Piva

Cibele Dalina Piva, Doctor in Education from the State University of Santa Catarina - Udesc, Master in Cultural Heritage and Society and Degree in History from the University of the Region of Joinville - Univille, with specializations focused on school education. Teacher in basic and higher education, with research experience in History, Social Representations, Cultural Heritage, History of Education, and Interdisciplinarity in the Human Sciences. Member of the Interdisciplinary Studies Group on Cultural Heritage - Geipac, currently doing a post-doctoral internship at the University of the Region of Joinville - Univille with the title “The Theory of Social Representations and the functions of cultural heritage”. She has been carrying out research on social representations and cultural heritage since 2008.

Dione da Rocha Bandeira

Dione da Rocha Bandeira, Graduated in Biological Sciences, master’s in social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina/UFSC and PhD in History from the State University of Campinas/Unicamp. Professor of Post- degree in Cultural Heritage and Society/PPGPCS, in the Heritage, Environment and Sustainable Development line and courses in History and Marine Biology, and coordinator of the Laboratory of Archeology and Archaeological Heritage/LAPArq at the University of the Region of Joinville/Univille. Archaeologist at the Archaeological Museum of Sambaqui in Joinville. Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Studies Group on Cultural Heritage/GEIPAC in the Archeology and Material Culture/ArqueoCult line. She works in interdisciplinary research on cultural heritage with an emphasis on material culture, coastal and indigenous archaeological heritage; in the sustainable management of archaeological heritage and museums; in studies with an emphasis on the relationships between culture, society, and environment from the past to the present.

Mariluci Neis Carelli

Mariluci Neis Carelli, Bachelor of Social Work (1985), Master of Sociology (1992) and Ph.D. in Production Engineering (2004), all from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)/Brazil. She is a professor in the Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage and Society at the University of the Region of Joinville-UNIVILLE. She coordinates the culture and sustainability research group, has published topics on cultural and natural heritage, landscape and social and environmental issues, culture and sustainability in contemporary times. His academic experience and publications involve several research projects in the field of environmental heritage and cultural landscape. His publications include articles and book chapters on landscape as a cultural heritage. She coordinates the research project that deals with the landscape as heritage and the seal as a new vision of heritage. In the context of university management, she is currently the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage and Society and has already exercised several roles in the management of the University of the Region of Joinville.

Taiza Mara Rauen Moraes

Taiza Mara Rauen Moraes, Graduation in Letters from the Universidade do Contestado/SC-UNC; Master’s and Doctorate in Literature – Literature Theory concentration area at the Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC. Full Professor at the University of the Region of Joinville - UNIVILLE, she works in the Licentiate/Bachelor of Arts course and in the Postgraduate Program in Cultural Heritage and Society PRPCS – Heritage, Memory and Languages Research Line. Editor-in-Chief of the digital magazine, Confluencias Culturais, linked to UNIVILLE’s Cultural Heritage and Society Program. She coordinates the Institutional Reading Incentive Program – PROEX/PROLER/UNIVILLE; leader of the CNPq Language Imbrications Research Group; network researcher iiLer Unesco PUC/Rio Chair.