Seminar
Participation and urban management: analysis of the municipalization of cultural heritage policy at Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mônica Starling (UFMG)
June 24th, 2010, 17:00, CES-Coimbra
Within "Heritage and Management of Historical Environment" Seminar Cycle
Presentation
The cultural heritage policy in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has evolved from an institutional design strictly focused on state intervention to a model based on the idea of sharing between the State and civil society in the decisions and actions related to the sector, a process in which the municipality had an important role in the creation of an institutional framework and in the implementation of political actions. I assume that the tendency to increase society’s participation in cultural heritage management occurs simultaneously with the evolution of the concept of heritage from an aesthetical, monumental and architectural sense to a wider concept which includes, along with the exceptionality of built heritages, the urban perspective and the immaterial values represented by traditions and cultural manifestations based on communities’ “knowings and doings”, emerging from oral traditions, rituals, feasts and legends. In the state of Minas Gerais, this process was consolidated by a political decentralization and muncipalization that occurred in the second half of the 1990 decade. This trend was induced by a tax redistribution mechanism adopted in the State, aiming at the stimulation of public policy actions within a municipal scope, among which the cultural heritage policy. The conducted study analyses the effects of that mechanism in the spatial and distributional evolution of this policy in the State and in the participatory nature which characterizes its new form of management in the municipality.
Biographic Note
Mônica Starling – Doctoral student of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and researcher at the João Pinheiro Foundation, organ of the Minas Gerais Planning Secretariat, where she intervenes in the evaluation of public policies in the fields of culture, cultural heritage and environment. Currently, she is on a training course at Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, with the support of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel).
Organization: City and Urban Cultures Research Group (NECCURB)
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