Networks, actors and governance in the perspective of cultural heritage

Abstract

This article debates the participative process related to cultural heritage focusing on the preservation of public policies scoping small cities, considering 68,4 of Brazilian cities have up to 20 thousand inhabitants (IBGE, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 2016). Using a relational approach of the main actors and their interdependent networks in the study of three cities that have declared national cultural heritage after 1988 and have installed municipal cultural policies: Antonio Prado (RS), Corumbá (GO) and São Félix (BA). In the perspective oriented towards the actors, it is approached the social capital in its structural form, and in collective action as the materialization of the social capital. Societies with high social capital have citizens highly participative who work collaboratively in favor of collective action. It is concluded that it is necessary not only the existence of structural social capital but also of the institutional arrangements and a new government based on the intersectoriality so that the development may be centered on the people and produce by the communities.