Entra cultura, sai política: práticas de boa governança na gestão das manifestações de rua por parte do Porto Maravilha

Abstract

The study of cultural practices and the production of knwoledge about culture in Rio de Janeiro's port area, under the Porto Maravilha project aegis, presents itself as an profitable field to monitor the performance of a governance regime, on emphasizing the dialogical relationship between forms of State – represented, especially, by the public-private partnership – and actions of local cultural agents. Oriented by the practice of the “new” flexible public management, Porto Maravilha allows the public to act like private and private, public. The illusory impression of symbiosis between both spheres assures an anti-political effect, weakening institutional relations and depositing their forces in personal relationship between local actors and administrative officials. Culture, objectified as a social panacea and transformed into central axis by international development paradigms and by global urbanistic projects, must be stripped of engaged, demanding and evident politics in order to its positive effects and undeniable contribution for the urban restructuring are completed.