A construção de políticas culturais no Brasil, conselhos de cultura e participação social: O caso de São Gonçalo-RJ, entre 2004 e 2014

Abstract

This thesis analyzes social participatory arrangements through the culture councils in an attempt to understand the possible potentiality to influence the construction of cultural policies operated in Brazil betwen 2004 and 2014, orchestrated by the minitry of culture. Considering that Cultural public policies themselves condition the functioning of the Culture Councils, the research explores the legacies of this trajetory, the peculiar traces of the different political projects that influenced the result of these participatory arrangements in this cycle of changes. The study of one of these participatory spaces, the Municipal Council of Culture of Sao Gonçalo, with its marks and presence of social players in the discussion of public cultural Sao Gonçalo policies is one of the references for this study. Created in January 2005, the Municipal Council of Culture of Sao Gonçalo tends to promote a strengthening of the participatory democratic project of the second largest city in the State of Rio de Janeiro, when artist, cultural educators, entertainers and cultural producers experiment a new tool to achieve your goals. Along this path, this present research presents reflections, questions and some element that can contribute to understanding the reasons for limitations found in the effectivation of cultural policies in municipal public manangement in gonçalense (Sao Gonçalo population) and in the functioning of the Culture Council itself, weaving a context with cultural policies implemented by the fluminense (Rio de Janeiro) government and the federal government, between antagonist political projects in the midst of spaces for social participation in the early years of the new millenium, at the dawn of 21st centurry.