
ONGOING PROJECTS
The Counterrevolution in the Global South: The Asian People's Anti-Communist League and the Beginning of the Cold War
This project seeks to examine the formation and expansion of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) at the beginning of the Cold War. The study of this anti-communist, transnational, and postcolonial organization allows us to observe the agency of local actors in shaping the international system of the period, incorporating actors and narratives from the Global South's right-wing, which are generally underestimated in Cold War studies. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Members: Gabriel da Fonseca Onofre
The Construction of Memories about the Dictatorship in Chile: An Analysis of the TV Series Los 80 and Ecos del Desierto
This project aims to study the television series Los 80: Más que una Moda and Ecos del Desierto, which were aired between 2008 and 2014 on an open television channel in Chile, to analyze the construction of memories about the dictatorship in the present time. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Involved Students: Undergraduate: (1). Members: Elisa de Campos Borges Funding: FAPERJ - Financial Support.
Democratic alternatives in the context of the Russian revolutions
Analyze the defeated democratic alternatives in the context of the Russian revolutions and the construction of authoritarian socialism in the USSR. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Members: Daniel Aarão Reis Filho Funding: Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro - Financial Aid.
Actors, networks, the State, and the genesis of agribusiness in Brazil
The objective of the project is to research the genesis of agribusiness in Brazil. Although the term 'agribusiness' has become common in our country, its existence is relatively recent. The term began to circulate more clearly starting in the 1980s, consolidating in the 1990s, particularly with the creation of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association, later known simply as Agribusiness. The research will focus, though not exclusively, on the trajectories of the individuals most directly involved in the process of affirming agribusiness in Brazil. Additionally, in order to better reflect on the genesis of agribusiness in Brazil, the project will delve into the historical analysis of the agrarian question in the country, continuing investigations traditionally developed by the researcher. Moreover, the project will address issues related to the interfaces between rural and urban worlds, tackling topics such as rural-urban migration. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Participants: Mário Grynszpan Number of C, T & A productions: 16
Paths to Good Living Under the Political Radar
The project aims to integrate research, teaching, and outreach through a work plan focused on recording, documenting, and reflecting on the experience of the Coletiva Popular de Mulheres da Zona Oeste (CPMZO) in Rio de Janeiro and its praxis within the Teia de Solidariedade da Zona Oeste. This reflection is guided by the insights of Aymara Bolivian sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and her considerations on "politics under the radar," recognizing that this experience also aligns with a path where Buen Vivir serves as a meaningful horizon. In this sense, it converges with analogous experiences, such as the one studied by the coordinator in the city of El Alto, Bolivia, during her doctoral research in History. This outreach initiative provides undergraduate students with an exchange with the women of the Zona Oeste, fostering an ecology of knowledge, field experience, the application of Oral History methodological principles in the collection of primary sources, and critical and theoretical reflection on Buen Vivir and so-called "under-the-radar" politics, which tend to be rendered invisible. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Outreach Students involved: Undergraduate (3) Team members: Mariana Bruce Ganem Baptista, Silvia Baptista, and Mariana Teixeira Miranda Funding: Fluminense Federal University – Scholarship.
Time Capsules: Memories of Communism in Museums and Memorials in Germany and Poland
The research seeks to understand the narratives present in the permanent exhibitions of museums dedicated to communism, which emerged following the end of communism and the disintegration of the USSR (1991) in Germany and Poland. In addition to museums self-identified as communism museums, the analysis will include the narratives in permanent exhibitions dedicated to the subject in historical museums already existing in the 1990s. Thus, I consider this set of exhibitions as museums of communism. Among the Eastern European countries, Poland will be studied, following the framework used in the previous project on museums and memorials dedicated to the Resistance to German occupation and Nazism. Two axes shape these memory narratives: everyday life and regime repression. The emphasis on one axis or another varies among the communism museum narratives. There is a third axis that drives the narratives, though not formally specified, yet evident: the comparison with the world that, over the years of Cold War polarization, was in the capitalist camp. The countries lived through the communist experience and processed it – according to their respective pasts, in short, medium, and long durations (BRAUDEL, 1976). Considering these temporalities is essential for understanding the different memories of the communist years. These memories result in the narratives of these museums, just as they (the narratives) participate in the construction of those memories. Like any construction of memory, the viewpoint on the past is situated in the present. Thus, remembering the years under communism, in these spaces of recollection (ASSMANN, A., 2011), can be linked to defending democracy or rejecting it. Against the backdrop of the rise of far-right movements in Europe (and not only on that continent), communism museums and memorials fulfill one or the other mission (a term used in the museums) in the current political disputes, aiming for the desired future. Situation: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Team members: Denise Rollemberg Cruz. Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - Productivity Grant.
Back to Europe: The Integration Policies of Memories in Post-Communist Countries within the European Union (Czech Republic and Hungary, 1989-2019)
This project was selected for the FAPERJ Young Scientist of Our State Program and proposes to study the processes of (re)integration of Central Europe into the European Union (EU) after the fall of communist regimes. More specifically, it focuses on the claims for the integration of their memories within the European context. Regarding policies about the past, since the mid-1960s, Western Europe began a process in which it gradually replaced the "national resistance paradigm" with the "transnational Shoah paradigm." This transformed into a memory criterion that, in theory, could unify the continent. However, from the 1990s onward, the so-called post-communist countries claimed their own memorial paradigm. They argued that, in addition to Nazism, they had been victims of another totalitarian regime—the communist one. Therefore, they demanded that, beyond the Holocaust, the crimes of communism be recognized as part of the EU's memory policies. This project aims to analyze the intricacies of the processes of memory construction and discussions in post-communist countries in relation to the memorial paradigm established by the EU. For this purpose, the specific case studies will be the experiences of the Czech Republic and Hungary from 1989 to 2019. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (2). Participants: Janaína Martins Cordeiro Funding: FAPERJ - Financial Aid. Number of publications, talks, and other academic activities: 3
From Captivity to Agrarian Reform: Revisiting the Rural History of Republican Brazil
The research project aims to develop three historiographical lines of interest in line with recent production in Rural History: 1) the post-abolition period in the countryside, which has become a vibrant research field; 2) the impacts of the Vargas Era on the rural world; and 3) the political action of rural workers amid the limited margins of struggle during the repression carried out by the post-1964 dictatorship. The research seeks to prioritize debates on identities, memory, rights, and political mobilization, in dialogue with microhistory and oral history, which have formed the theoretical and methodological foundations of the ongoing postdoctoral project. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Researchers: Marcus Ajuruam de Oliveira Dezemone Number of C, T & A Productions: 4
'It’s affection that helps you hold on': history, memories, resistances, and sensitivities in the trajectory of Jessie Jane Vieira de Souza during the dictatorship and redemocratization in Brazil
Jessie Jane Vieira de Souza is one of many Brazilian women whose lives were shaped by the military dictatorship that began with the 1964 coup. Jessie was a militant of one of the many revolutionary organizations active in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s. She experienced underground activity, repression, the deaths of comrades, and imprisonment. She was the longest-incarcerated political activist during the dictatorship. She endured various forms of torture and physical, psychological, and gender-based violence. She was the first prisoner in Rio de Janeiro to receive conjugal visits. While still in prison, she married, became pregnant, and gave birth to her only daughter. After gaining her freedom, she participated in the struggle for amnesty and democratic freedoms during the country's process of redemocratization. She remains involved in the fight for memory, truth, and justice in Brazil. This project’s main goal is to analyze Jessie Jane’s trajectory and, through it, address significant themes related to the dictatorship and the redemocratization process in Brazil, such as resistance, female participation in revolutionary left movements, repression and political imprisonment, underground activities, gender-based violence, motherhood in extreme situations, childhood affected by repression, Transitional Justice, and the construction of memories about Brazil’s authoritarian past. This project was initially awarded the Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDS) from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) and is currently supported by a scholarship from the Institutional Program of Scientific and Technological Initiation (PIBIC-UERJ). Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (1). Team members: Izabel Priscila Pimentel da Silva and Ana Clara Passos Sobral
Civil Wars in Russia: The Foundations of Authoritarian Socialism in Russia/USSR
The project proposes to reconsider the importance of the civil wars in Russia (1918/1921) in establishing the authoritarian foundations of Soviet socialism. The research covers five revolutions between 1905 and 1921 (the 1905 revolution, the February and October revolutions of 1917, the civil wars considered a new revolution—1918/1921—and the Kronstadt revolution of 1921 as the final—lost—attempt at democratic socialism). Supported by research conducted at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) and INALCO (Paris), with funding from FAPERJ through the Cientista do Nosso Estado program (2019-2022), from CNPq through the grant of a Productivity Scholarship 1A (2022-2027) and a Senior Post-Doctoral Scholarship Abroad (EHESS, 2021-2022), and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), following a stage as a Visiting Scholar (July-September 2022). Situation: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Members: Daniel Aarão Reis Filho Funding: Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro - Financial support / National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Scholarship.
Ghetto. Museums and Memorials of the Resistance to the Nazi Occupation in Poland during World War II
The research aims to understand the construction of memory regarding the Resistance in Poland under German occupation during World War II in the narratives of museums and memorials dedicated to the subject. The study will analyze the Warsaw Uprising Museum in the Polish capital and the Polish Army Museum in Krakow, among others (see the project). As for memorials, the research will focus on the 1944 Uprising Memorial (Warsaw) and the memorials of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943), including the most well-known one and others located around the city (leadership bunkers of the Uprising, the place of the station from which Jews were deported, the only remaining ruin of the Ghetto wall, ground markings indicating where the wall once stood, etc.). By including the Ghetto Uprising as part of the Resistance, the research aims to contribute to the historiographical debate on whether it should be conceptually regarded as such. The research will also examine the Old Town itself, the historic district of the Polish capital, considering it an "open-air museum." Destroyed during the 1944 Uprising massacre, the Old Town was rebuilt in the 1950s according to pre-war architecture and urbanization, becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1966. The analysis of the museums' and memorials' narratives will assess the extent to which they integrate deconstructive perspectives on mythic versions of the Polish Resistance. This refers to the treatment of taboo themes such as collaboration, which have been present in certain historiographies in recent decades. Conceptually, the research is embedded in discussions about the proliferation of museums and memorials related to the tragedies of World War II through the concepts of "places of memory" (NORA, 1984, 1992, 1993) and "spaces of remembrance" (ASSMANN, 2011). Given the centrality of the nation-state issue in Poland (both before and after the war), as well as the country's particularities in the conflict (brutal double invasion and occupation, civilian massacres, Jewish genocide, creation of ghettos, proliferation of concentration and extermination camps, etc.), the research will investigate how Pierre Nora's concept is updated in the understanding of museums and memorials in Poland as a means of asserting national identity. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Participants: Denise Rollemberg Cruz Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Scholarship / Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of RJ - Scholarship.
History and Professionalization of the Space of Historiography in Brazil
The project, initiated at the end of 2013, aims to study the process of professionalization of the historiography field in Brazil from the first half of the 20th century, with the creation of university History courses. Prosopographic studies will be conducted, based on archival data, interviews, and secondary sources. The research will also involve investments in topics not necessarily tied to the spatial scope of Brazil but of interest to the field of historiography in general. A theoretical discussion associated with the research, which is also a traditional subject of the researcher’s work, concerns elites, their processes of circulation and reproduction, and their resources for differentiation and power. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Participants: Mario Grynszpan Number of C, T & A productions: 2
Historiography of Authoritarianisms in Europe
The lab addresses the authoritarian experiences in 20th-century Europe (Salazarism, Francoism, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism). Through discussions on the theoretical developments and historiographical productions concerning these phenomena, it highlights their complexity and multifaceted historical construction in the political, social, cultural, and emotional spheres. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Members: Helen Rocha Rotta and Felipe Alexandre Silva de Souza
European Identity and National Identities: Memory, Monuments, and Recent Past in Central Europe – Czech Republic and Hungary (1989-2020)
This project aims to study the processes of memory construction regarding the authoritarian pasts of Central Europe in the 20th century. After the 1989 revolutions that ended the communist dictatorships established in the late 1940s, the countries of the region had to deal, within the processes of democratic transition, with issues related to their recent past. In this sense, debates emerged not only about the communist dictatorships but also about the Nazi occupation during World War II. The project seeks to reflect on the ways in which the recent past is elaborated and represented in official discourses and public spaces in the context of redemocratization processes. It also aims to reflect on the appropriation of the past by radical right-wing regimes that emerged in some countries from the early 21st century. To this end, the construction of monuments and other types of interventions in the urban landscape carried out after 1989 in two specific countries—the Czech Republic and Hungary—are used as sources and objects of study. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (4) / Doctoral: (1). Researchers: Janaína Martins Cordeiro Funders: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - Scholarship.
Indigenous Movements, Decoloniality, and the Good Living in Latin America
The project aims to analyze the contributions of indigenous movements and/or intellectuals in Latin America, with an emphasis on the Bolivian experience, particularly the Indianist intellectuals and movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Discourses such as that of Fausto Reinaga (1906-1994, Bolivia) question the colonial structures that persist even after independence and the racism that nullifies indigenous existences and subjectivities. One of the consequences of his provocations was the election of the first indigenous president in South America and, consequently, the signing of a new Social Pact that redefined the State as Plurinational and Communitarian, in addition to adopting the concept of Buen Vivir as a horizon of meaning. These changes resonate with ancestral knowledge of the Americas that has resisted throughout more than 500 years of Eurocentric colonialism. Decoloniality emerges as a theoretical field that distances itself from the supposedly objective and universal character claimed by Western history and emphasizes the place and bodies from which ideas originate, especially those racialized by this same order. Thus, the dialogue with a Latin American bibliographic and documentary production is intensified, which, while not losing sight of a broader context of knowledge production, takes a stance to purify the legacy of Eurocentric matrices while bringing greater visibility to the knowledge produced within the struggles and reflections developed in this epistemic otherness, contributing, therefore, to the de(s)colonization of thought and historiography. The proposal is to conduct a study around three fundamental axes: a) analysis of selected texts by Fausto Reinaga; b) reflection on his work and trajectory within the framework of Intellectual History, which links textual production to the context in which it arises, questioning the strong tendency towards anachronism present in traditional histories of political and social theories; c) highlighting the outcomes of this study in the context of a proposal for the de(s)colonization of thought and historiography. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (12). Researchers: Mariana Bruce Ganem Baptista
Women, Arms, and Revolution: Connected Histories of Female Engagement in Left-Wing Organizations (Brazil and Spain, 1960s)
In two different countries across the globe, during the 1960s and 1970s, two groups were formed to fight against their countries' dictatorships and for what they believed to be the liberation of their peoples: the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária (VPR) in Brazil and the Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) in the Basque Country, Spain. Despite being in different hemispheres, both organizations were inspired by the same revolutionary experiences: Cuba, Vietnam, and China were the primary references, and the adopted tactic was guerrilla warfare. Both the VPR and ETA viewed violence as a central aspect of their planned actions. The men and women who joined these groups, while having their own agendas based on their respective sociocultural and national contexts, were also part of the 1968 global movement, which united left-wing ideologies around an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial Marxism critical of the Soviet Union. Each organization had its own definition of what constituted the dominant agents: for ETA, it was the Spanish State, which did not recognize the ethnic and political autonomy of the Basque Country; for the VPR, it was the United States, exercising domination through the dictatorship established by the 1964 coup. Both groups included women among their members, and this project aims to investigate their roles, motivations for joining the movements, the activities they engaged in, the positions they held within the organizational structure, and more. Analyzing female engagement in organizations that primarily used violence helps challenge pacifist stereotypes associated with women, as they are biologically seen as bearers of life. Gender, as an analytical category, is essential for critically examining the historically assigned social roles of men and women, allowing for their historicization. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research. Members: Juliana Marques do Nascimento Funding: Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of RJ - Scholarship.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the defense of the international image of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985)
The project aims to examine the strategies used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) to defend the international image of the military dictatorship, not only seeking to avoid the dissemination of negative aspects about Brazil, but also acting to encourage the publication of laudatory news about the Brazilian government. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Students involved: Academic Master's: (1). Members: Paulo César Gomes Bezerra and Mathews Mathias Funder(s): Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Scholarship. Number of C, T & A productions: 18
The Emergence of Czechoslovakia and the Impact of the U.S. Press on the Formation of New Nations in Central Europe (1916–1928)
The project focuses on the debates surrounding the formation and consolidation of Czechoslovakia as an independent nation-state. To this end, it examines discussions that took place in the United States on this subject, in a context where the U.S. was asserting itself on the international stage, with its entry into World War I shaping the future of the belligerent European states. Additionally, the intellectuals leading the Czechoslovak national project sought to engage with Wilsonian proposals, given the significance and role attributed to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as a liberator of the oppressed peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Status: Ongoing; Nature: Research Students involved: Academic Master's (1) Team members: Laura Barbosa Menacho Ferreira and Janaina Martins Cordeiro
Persistences of the past: a study on memories and sensitivities through the production of Edith Birkin (1941-2018)
Post-doctoral research project developed at the Fluminense Federal University, funded by FAPERJ. The documentary research aims to analyze the works painted by Edith Birkin, who survived her time in concentration camps and ghettos. At the age of 14, Birkin was taken to Lodz in Poland and was taken to Auschwitz and later liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945. When she returned to Prague, Birkin discovered that no one in her family had survived the time in the camps. Thus, in 1946 Birkin decided to move to London, where she restarted her life. A kindergarten teacher and graduate in Art History, the Polish woman began to express, in different ways, the echoes of her memories of the Shoah, bringing to the public space her emotions and sensitivities about these experiences. Thus, this research work focuses on the analysis of the works produced after her experience, understanding how they operate both in the construction of Edith Birkin's memory, as well as in the structuring of a historical memory about the events that occurred in the Holocaust, as well as its social memorialistic elaboration. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Members: Helen Rocha Rotta
Politics and culture in Latin America - 20th and 21st centuries
This research line aims to discuss the various theoretical perspectives that address the political and cultural transformations experienced in Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries. We seek to understand and problematize the multiplicity of projects presented on the continent from critical theoretical perspectives that discuss themes such as modernity, capitalism, socialisms, ideology, gender, cultural manifestations, among others. From this research line, we structured a study group that brings together undergraduate and graduate students and provides, through projects, readings and discussions, reflections on Latin America in the present time. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (12) / Academic Master's: (4). Members: Elisa de Campos Borges
Writing Politics - Hélio Oiticica and Rio de Janeiro
It is proposed to produce research that has as its object the writings of the plastic artist Hélio Oiticica between the years 1963 and 1970 and that discusses the intricate relationships between the production of such critical material, the urbanistic experience of the city and the military dictatorship. This proposal is interested in problematizing the historical discourses already established, from an approach that has as its main element the intermissions between the local and the global, in order to fracture hegemonic approaches and promote a reevaluation of the period, considering also the geographic, economic and social particularity of the State of Rio de Janeiro. This research is justified by the urgency of the theme, as well as by the need for a historical revisionism of the artist's work, in addition to the desire for theoretical and practical construction of other approaches to the narrative of the epistemological frontiers of the urban fabric. This project aims objectively, in addition to carrying out the research itself through the production of a set of scientific articles, the execution of a seminar on Hélio Oiticica in 2022, the publication of a book with several specialists, a second book with the research itself and the realization of a documentary. It also includes a set of workshops on the artist's writings in public schools and currently has the science and support (without funds) of the Hélio Oiticica Arts Center and the Hélio Oiticica Project. This research is also part of an ongoing post-doctoral program, without a scholarship, in the Postgraduate Program in History at UFF under the supervision of Daniel Aarão Reis. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (4). Members: Alexandre Sá Barretto da Paixão
Political projects, social actors and culture in the 60s to 90s in Chile
This project seeks to analyze the trajectory of the left and the right from the 60s, 70s and 80s, problematizing the political, economic and cultural projects driven by three distinct political groups: the center, with the election of the Christian Democracy in the 1960s; the left with the electoral victory of Popular Unity in 1970, and the right that comes to power through a military coup in 1973. The Christian Democracy won the elections in the 1960s adopting a program called "Revolution in Freedom". This was presented as an alternative to liberal capitalism and socialism. The Popular Unity in the 70s takes power with the challenge of opening the way to the socialist transition. For this, it proposes a series of structural reforms, such as the nationalization of the country's mineral wealth, the nationalization of part of the productive sector and the adoption of a new culture based on values such as, for example, solidarity. In 1973, the military came to power through a coup agreed between the Armed Forces, the political right and the technocracy. They presented neoliberalism as the primary project for the "reorganization" of Chilean society. For this they counted on political repression to approve the structural reforms in the political and economic system. The objective of this research is, from the study of these structural projects, to analyze the reorganization of the state and its impact on the daily lives of Chilean workers. We will also analyze the adoption of cultural policies as a way of disseminating new values driven by these three projects for the working class. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Members: Elisa de Campos Borges
PROPRIETAS Network: property, innovation and common good
This project consists of a study proposal about property - as a social institution - in some of its distinct dimensions, with emphasis on its effects on the production and access to technological and cultural goods (intellectual property and copyright). Choosing the historical perspective as a valid and fruitful analysis bias, it is intended to reflect on the construction and functioning of certain property regulation structures (agrarian, urban, credit and intellectual), in view of the construction of comparison parameters on the appropriation of tangible and intangible goods. This comparative study will be developed both from the synchronic point of view - comparing distinct national experiences in specific historical moments - and diachronic - paying attention to the continuities, transformations and ruptures that occurred over time in the observed legal-institutional frameworks. Taking into account the prominence that intellectual property acquires in the current context, in which the so-called "knowledge era" is globally consolidated, the objective is to foster debates and contribute to the deepening of reflections on the matter in the country, subject to increasing appreciation, but still lacking interlocutors. For this, it is envisioned, in addition to the exercise of a broad research effort, the elaboration of a work of dissemination and dissemination to the general public, of the multiple themes and objects that involve the field of property, prioritizing the reach to young researchers and students. As an unfolding of this project, the Proprietas Network is being created, which will house the laboratories and researchers involved in research on the historical dimension of property, in its multiple dimensions. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Members: Marcus Ajuruam de Oliveira Dezemone, Marina Monteiro Machado and Marcia Maria Menendes Motta
Re-emergence of authoritarian proposals in the context of the digital revolution/21st century
This study aims to examine the rise of authoritarian proposals in the context of the current digital revolution that have gained relevance in the first decades of the 21st century. To analyze - in the long tradition - the traditions on which such proposals are based. In the medium term, the factors that have contributed to strengthening them. And in the short translation, in the context of the immediate political struggle, the options and circumstances that have favored them in various societies. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Members: Daniel Aarão Reis Filho
Under the scourge of immorality: projects of nation, social control and transnational dialogues in the discourses of the French moral restoration leagues (1883-1914)
Post-doctoral project developed with the Department of Post-Graduation in History at UFF and the Center for Contemporary Studies (NEC). The project proposes to investigate the moral strategies and discourses elaborated by two civil entities that emerged in France at the end of the 19th century, with the purpose of combating pornography and prostitution: the "Ligue pour le relèvement de la moralité publique" and the "Société de protestation contre la licence des rues". The proposal consists, specifically, in investigating which nation projects these discourses served and how they collaborated to justify mechanisms of social control in a period that, in France, was marked by a series of internal conflicts, by the effects of industrialization, the colonial experience and the emergence of new social actors and figures of otherness. The project privileges the French experience, but proposes to analyze it from a transnational perspective, since the articulation between moral militancies from different countries was intense, deliberate and culminated, in the first decade of the 20th century, in two Diplomatic Conferences. Chronologically, the proposal is situated between 1883, when the first of these entities was founded, and 1914, when the outbreak of World War I momentarily weakened European moral militancy. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Members: Erika Natasha Cardoso
Violence, culture and power in Europe: from the Ancien Régime to the 20th century
Academics among researchers linked to the Institute of History of UFRJ and the Institute of History of UFF. It is, therefore, an interinstitutional initiative dedicated to reflecting on themes related to the processes of political violence that marked Europe in recent centuries. The team is made up of researchers with significant experience in studies on the European Ancien Régime and on authoritarian regimes and dictatorships in the 20th century, as well as on the processes of shaping consensus, sociabilities, frictions and resistances under such regimes, in addition to the conformation of a certain European identity in the confluence of memories about violence. The researchers who make up the group have, at least since 2017, been carrying out important work in academic partnerships, which were strengthened with the prospect of creating an interinstitutional group from 2020 onwards. In this sense, the hypothesis that violence and power in Europe in the First and Second Modernities are directly linked to cultural production not only in the sense of representations and artistic manifestations, but also in the conformation of an underlying culture, linked to politics and memory, may be tested and proven in the individual research of each member, as described in the project. For this purpose, the theoretical-methodological frameworks of Cultural History, Social History and Intellectual History will serve as guidelines for conducting the work. Status: In progress; Nature: Research. Students involved: Undergraduate: (4) / Academic Master's: (4) / Doctorate: (4). Members: Denise Rollemberg Cruz, Daniel Aarão Reis Filho, Janaína Martins Cordeiro, Silvia Liebel and Vinicius Liebel Funder(s): CNPQ - Financial Aid.