Ego history

Ementa: O curso tem como objetivo apresentar aos alunos de graduação em História da Universidade Federal Fluminense a possibilidade de trabalho com autores latino-americanos do campo das ciências humanas. Em meio aos debates sobre conceitos como decolonialidade e perspectivas em torno do que se convencionou chamar de Sul Global, problematizaremos sobre o conceito de "pensamento social". Nosso intuito é trabalharmos em torno de uma teoria social autóctone produzida na América Latina, a qual acreditamos apresentar inúmeras possibilidades de sua utilização em nossas pesquisas.

Resumo: Esta resenha apresenta o livro Os brancos da lei: liberalismo, escravidão e mentalidade patriarcal no Império do Brasil, do historiador Jurandir Malerba. Utilizando uma grande variedade de fontes, com destaque para a legislação e as obras juristas brasileiros do período da formação de um Brasil Monárquico, escravista e latifundiário, e, nesse sentido, o autor desmistifica a penetração do liberalismo, especialmente na construção de um direito criminal. Mais ainda, tem o patriarcalismo e não a cidadania como elemento central de sua análise. Finalmente, merece destaque a profunda, original e abrangente discussão teórica apresentada.

„How can a researcher authentically perceive his or her own story and make others perceive it? How can she decide what is really important and what is less so? Obviously, such highlighting or marginalisation will always be subjective and intentional, and the whole endeavour requires a kind of constant, almost circular, reflection. And this reflection, as time goes on, brings newer and newer lines from the personal history to the fore and makes them important. This process can only be stopped very firmly at this or that point, and the price of stopping abruptly is that one always ends up with snapshots. [...]
Anyone can ask: why the witch-hunts, why the Calvinists, why Debrecen? At least at first, because, even if I later turned away from this research topic, it eventually returned again and again in my work in other contexts - Catholic/Jesuit, American Indian. I was and am sensitive to this problematic. About the birth and deeper reasons for this sensitivity, I would like to - and now can - tell you some relevant - family/kinship, and local social historical - aspects.”

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Resumo: Esta resenha apresenta o livro Os brancos da lei: liberalismo, escravidão e mentalidade patriarcal no Império do Brasil, do historiador Jurandir Malerba. Utilizando uma grande variedade de fontes, com destaque para a legislação e as obras juristas brasileiros do período da formação de um Brasil Monárquico, escravista e latifundiário, e, nesse sentido, o autor desmistifica a penetração do liberalismo, especialmente na construção de um direito criminal. Mais ainda, tem o patriarcalismo e não a cidadania como elemento central de sua análise. Finalmente, merece destaque a profunda, original e abrangente discussão teórica apresentada.

Logo que começamos nossa primeira pesquisa de "folego", descobrimos que, por mais preparados que estejamos em termos de formação específica, carecemos das "ferramentas" para dar andamento aos lineamentos colocados no projeto. Enquanto nas ciências sociais os manuais de metodologia são bastante instrumentais e os métodos da pesquisa são visíveis nos produtos finais, a história opera de outra forma. Os métodos, com algumas exceções, sucumbem ante a teoria, mais visível e explícita na maioria das vezes. Na década de 1970 Ciro Flamarion Cardoso e Perez Brignoli publicaram um livro com o título Os métodos da história: introdução aos problemas, métodos e técnicas de história demográfica, económica e social (tradução do livro publicado pouco antes em espanhol). Por mais de 500 páginas os autores buscavam dar conta dos instrumentos de conhecimento que o campo da história dispunha naquele momento. Tempo depois, Ciro Flamarion Cardoso publicou Introducción al trabajo de la investigación historica (1981). Neste, o autor advertia sobre o perfil do livro, e esclarecia que em 1976 tinha publicado, junto com Pérez Brignoli Os métodos como manual universitário. Ambos os livros tinham nascido da experiência docente e das observações realizadas por alunos do México, Costa Rica e do Brasil. Dizia o goianense que alguns alunos sugeriram maior detalhamento dos problemas teóricos e epistemológicos, enquanto outros solicitavam o aprofundamento do problema da organização da pesquisa histórica (Cardoso, 1981:9). Essa duplicidade de interesses entre as questões teórico-epistemológicas e as metodológicas, ou dos procedimentos, se mantém nos novos públicos, mas não achamos ninguém disposto a encarar o desafio que a dupla latino-americana encarou quase 50 anos atrás. Coincidia aquela conjuntura com a da implementação da política de pósgraduação e pesquisa no Brasil. Na década de 1970 eram criados os primeiros programas de pós-graduação como política sistemática vinculada à Capes. Entre a década de 1980 e o presente passamos por diferentes momentos metodológicos: do predomínio das abordagens quantitativas e seriais às qualitativas, com um diálogo profícuo entre escolas solidárias: a micro-história italiana com a história social inglesa e a história da cultura francesa. Passamos de um período com ênfase em teorias sistémicas a outro com ênfase em conceitos (Johnson, 2003). A chamada crise de paradigma recolocou o dilema entre liberdade e necessidade. Dizia Emilia Viotti da Costa (1998), citando ou parafraseando a Merleau Ponty, que dependendo da praxis social, os historiadores eram conduzidos a enfatizar tanto forças

Este artigo revisitará as tensas relações entre “practicing historians” e teóricos/filósofos da história. A abordagem dualista descrita, por exemplo, no livro Haunting History (2017) de Ethan Kleinberg e no manifesto de autoria de Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott e Gary Wilder intitulado "Theses on Theory and History" (2018) destaca a divisão e sustenta tensões entre essas duas "tribos". Identifico uma posição expressa nos textos acima que clama pela renovação da disciplina história, teorizando-a como uma "libertação paternalista da história pela teoria". Quando consideramos "o que deve ser feito" para enterrar a divisão entre “practicing historians” e teóricos, proponho certas estratégias de cooperação que podem levar a uma neutralização (localizada) das tensões duradouras entre eles.

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Este artigo trata da produção de pesquisas sobre História da América nas universidades do Estado de São Paulo, entre 1942 e 2004. A partir do levantamento de dados relativos à produção de teses e dissertações, analisamos seu volume, temáticas, períodos e paises estudados, assim como as instituições em que foram produzidas. Tais elementos serão articulados a uma análise qualitativa para compreender essa produção ao longo do tempo à luz da historiografia e do desenvolvimento da pós-graduação.

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