Paradoxos e desigualdades: políticas culturais nas cidades do Rio de Janeiro e do México durante a pandemia

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural field, focusing on cultural policies at the local level adopted and their relationship with access to cultural rights inequalities in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico, in 2020 and 2021. Based on the concept of "entangled inequalities", according to Sérgio Costa (2019), it is expected to apprehend the weight of factors such as historical legacy and territorial occupation by different social groups in the fulfillment of cultural rights. The work of Aníbal Quijano (2005) is a reference for this research, which takes a look at Latin America, pointing out paradoxes between the rise in cultural consumption and the precarious situation of culture workers with the closure of spaces in the pandemic period, the digital divide that affected many of them and the role of culture in establishing inequalities. It is made a comparison between the initiatives implemented by the municipal government in the face of this context in the two cities, analyzed based on the methodology proposed by Silva, Babo and Guerra (2015). The study produced a critical analysis of the participation and decision processes and a territorial mapping of the granted resources. The stages include the study of official documents (programs, selections, results, data on beneficiaries) and interviews with cultural agents from different territories.