Participação popular no processo de tombamento coletivo no conjunto paisagístico do Poço Rico: análise do discurso das atas de reuniões informativas sobre o tombamento com a comunidade afetada

Abstract

The present work dedicates itself to the analysis of popular participation in the process of establishing a site as a heritage site, corresponding to an empirical research, of which object of analysis consists in a public hearing and a informal meeting envollving the neighborhood community of Poço Rico. More specifically, this work focuses on the discourse analysis present in these documents, having as theoretical framework the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The general objective of this work consists in checking the discourse used in these meetings in a way to verify if they contributed or not to the protection of heritage site, stimulating and ensuring the right to memory of this community with the object of the legal action. The work has yet, as a specific objective, the analysis of popular participation in the legal process of establishing heritage site, wich involves: a) the identification of the degree of knowledge of this community about that process, their rights and duties; b) verifying their comprehension about this institution of heritage site and in what that implicates for the site itself and, c) the analysis of the consequences of this participation, or non-participation, to the effectiveness of the preservation of the local heritage site. For theoretical framework it made use of Norman Fairclough's theory, main name of the CDA, and of the concept of historical patrimony brought by François Choay, and other authors in law and patrimonial fields. Accordingly to the study developed, it is possible to notice the importance of heritage education in order to perceive effective popular participation in the process of establishing heritage site , in a way to enable the protection of heritage site in a local and national aspect.