Prestes’ column: disputes around the memory and heritage

Authors

  • Amilcar Guidolim Vitor Integrated Regional University of Alto Uruguay and the Missions
  • Júlio Ricardo Quevedo dos Santos Federal University of Santa Maria

Keywords:

Memory, Heritage, Disputes, Prestes Column

Abstract

Memories as well as cultural patrimony are multifaceted fields and they are exposed to social construction processes, especially from people’s and group’s interests. Seeking to understand them from a historical point of view that recognizes them as a space for selection and disputes of what should be remembered or forgotten, we expose and analyze the case of the Prestes Column Memorial; located in Santo Angelo district in the Northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul, where important events happened in the 1920´s decade that gave origin to the Prestes Column march. After more than 70 years a Memorial was implanted, generating disputes and production of representations for the legitimacy of the past, which resulted in a construction process of the memory and of the created memory place.

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Author Biographies

Amilcar Guidolim Vitor, Integrated Regional University of Alto Uruguay and the Missions

He is a Historian and Doctor in History, and teaches at the Integrated Regional University of Alto Uruguay and the Missions. He studies and guides research on the memory of cultural heritage.

Júlio Ricardo Quevedo dos Santos, Federal University of Santa Maria

He is a Historian, Doctor in Social History and teaches at the Federal University of Santa Maria. He studies and guides research in the areas of Latin American integration history, Cultural history, Power relations, Culture and history, Latin American integration and Latin American identity.

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Published

2018-07-01

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 16 (2018): V!16 The Construction of Memory vol. 2

Section

Ágora