Advisor: Rachel Coutinho Marques da Silva
Dissertation: Commons and Community Museums: The Museu Sankofa’s case in Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro
Defense date: 30/08/2021
Abstract
This research is situated in aftereffects of Programa de Aceleração do
Crescimento/Urbanização de Assentamentos Precários (PAC-UAP), a federal
programme of favela’s urbanization policy grounded in 2007, which legate to
Favela da Rocinha would be about common’s economy of social relations in
reference to a reciprocal communitarianism and assistencialism’s network. A
direct link to that moment is this research’s object Museu Sankofa Memória e
Historia da Rocinha, a community museum based in 2011, as a product of
Memory Hotspots govt’s program conquered in 2009. Narrative so suffers a
radical change from cultural misrepresentation paradigm, which insurge through a
local expression by communities, with them historical past and memory alive,
raises an intangible heritage bylaw’s renewal and, on the other hand, it strengthens
social movements in multitude’s background. Oftenly facing different systems of
oppression, frame those peripheral territories by neoliberal task, the metropolitan
favelas begin insurging in shape of musealized bodies since 2006, according to
new museology’s theory, what creates a real and virtual museological
community’s network. As a matter of fact, it has developed since then a
countermovement against market modus operandi by self-governance cells
working collectively, what will shape new ways of resistance to common’s
expropriation, through institutions such as NGOs and many other local
movements. Finally, it’s the main goal of this research analyze commonality, i.e.,
the self-reproduction of commons on marginalized contexts, on heritage’s field of
struggle and negotiation, to emancipate its subjects and subjectivities.