Entre a polidez e a civilidade : processo civilizador e práticas de cidadania no Recife oitocentista evidenciadas no Diário de Pernambuco (1831-1840)

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to describe the way in which a series of changes evidenced in the city of Recife, from 1831 to 1840, worked in the transformation of everyday practices. In order to do so, we chose to construct a narrative based on the reader's letters published in the newspaper Diario de Pernambuco, considering correspondences as a possibility for exercising citizenship and political activity used by various social groups (writers, political parties, religious). On the theoretical and methodological procedures, we use the studies developed by Michel de Certeau (2000), in order to understand the strategies and tactics developed by social groups with respect to the segment of social behavior norms instituted by the modernization process. From the analysis of this documentation, we highlight that in the correspondences it is perceived the defense of their particular interests, the singularities of the process of political disputes and the exercise of citizenship in the regency period. As a result, newspapers acted as main vehicles in the dissemination of news about the daily life of city life, being a relevant source in the investigation of political actions, since its authors developed several tactics, among them anonymity, to assume in the pages of Newspapers and their positions, thus exercising citizenship, as they claimed, questioned and expressed their perceptions about the society of the time.