CoopMar Network Scientific Meeting
Transoceanic Cooperation, Public Policies and Iberoamerican Cultural Community
Cultures and communities in port cities

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81447029128

Programming

Opening: 09:00-09:10 (South America) – 12:00-12:10 (PT)

Amélia Polónia – Coordinator of CoopMar Network

Scientific Papers Table 01 – 09:10-11:00 am (South Am.) – 12:00-14:00 pm (PT)

Jorge Carballo (FLACSO/UH/CUBA) – CREATIVE AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN CUBA. REALIZATION POSSIBILITIES IN AN INDUSTRIAL 4.0 SCENARIO

Resumen – Los debates actuales ponen miras en el sistema funcional de la producción de arte y nos devuelven a análisis crítico sobre el grado de autonomía del proceso de trabajo y creación artística, mediado por el mercado, lo cual determina la reproducción del sistema cultural. Some answers to this complex entanglement, from what is operative in the artist-market-institution relationship, can be found in the debates about entrepreneurship and its potential for the sector. One could conceive the artist-entrepreneur as a creator capable of taking on market structures, which would put him in an advantageous position to achieve a certain degree of empowerment in the production, circulation and diffusion of his work. Together with this, profound reconversions of the cities have been manifesting, where art production is positioned in a new preferential place as a powerful engine of economic development. These areas, with a strong presence and concentration of cultural goods and services, conform the so-called cultural and creative districts. These constitute an alternative for social transformation, inclusion and sustainability. In this sense, the paper attempts to contribute elements to the debate about the possibility of cultural districts and entrepreneurship in the context of the development process in Cuba.

Fernando Vergara Benitez (PUC/Valparaíso/CHILE) – ACTORS, SCENARIOS y NARRATIVAS EN LA ACTUAL CIUDAD PORTUARIA DE VALPARAÍSO

Abstract – This exhibition offers a picture that describes the present of the coastal city of Valparaíso. What was once the main port in the South Pacific has shown worrying levels of abandonment in recent years. Este deterioro se ha agudizado después del estallido social de 2019 y la crisis derivada de la pandemia de 2020. La presentación pone el énfasis en algunos actores, contextos, matices y tensiones y compartte algunas narrativas en torno a los desafíos y oportunidades que están circulando en la comunidad.

Mirta Linero Baroni (Patronato Panamá Viejo/PANAMÁ) – NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ASUNCIÓN DE PANAMÁ, 1519-1671: FONDEADEROS Y PUERTOS PARA LA SUPERVIVENCIA DE LA TEMPRANA CIUDAD

Resumen – La ciudad de Panamá fue fundada en la orilla del océano Pacífico para convertirse-principalmente- en el puerto que pudiese garantizar el transporte de personas y el tráfico comercial hispanoamericano temprano. Mostraremos los avances de investigación al respecto del paisaje urbano de la ciudad entre 1519 y 1550, y la caracterización de las facilidades portuarias de la primera etapa de ocupación del asentamiento.

Amélia Polónia (FLUP-CITCEM), Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL) and Fernando Mouta (FLUP-CITCEM) – DAMNATIO MEMORIAE OU DAMNATIO CONSENSUS: CONFLICTING COLONIAL HERITAGE IN LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

Abstract- Seaports were, for centuries, the most continuous platform for exchange between Europe, Africa and America. Port cities emerge as social structures and constructions with specific characteristics. Taking them as a focus of study favors the debate on issues related to urban and social complexity, since they usually show signs of diversity, both human and cultural. They are, therefore, privileged places for the development of studies of alterity and permeability, including cultural ones.
Port cities in Europe and Latin America also face risks from high levels of development in the tourism industry. This sector exploits material and immaterial, built, symbolic or natural heritage, often without benefit to the builders of these assets or their heirs – the local communities. Everything becomes more sensitive when it comes to memories and heritage historically built through colonial dynamics. Several questions thus arise around the management of these memories and legacies. Today, Latin American communities are calling for the recognition of indigenous identities and values and clamoring for different concepts and practices for their preservation.
This presentation is based on the tension that arises between two concepts – Damnatio memoriae and Damnatio consensos – that express the vibrant reactions of the communities involved and are a great example of the current diversity in relation to heritage, especially of colonial heritage.

Lecture 11:00-11:45h (South America) – 14:00-14:45h (PT)
Cezar Honorato (prof. titular IHT-UFF/BRAZIL)
THE PORT COMMUNITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract – The lecture will first aim to problematize the concept of port community as a possible category of analysis. After that, to explore its importance for the understanding of the Social History of the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro and similar Iberian-American ports, with emphasis on its aspects of sociability, including its manifestations in the field of culture.

Scientific Communications Roundtable 02 – 13:00-14:45 (South America) – 16:00-17:45 (PT)
Mediation: Luiz Cláudio M. Ribeiro

Diogo Cardoso (FLUP-CITCEM) – THE PORTUGUESE POPULATION IN BRAZILIAN PORT CITIES AND VILAS IN THE 17th CENTURY

Abstract-The Portuguese presence in Brazil in the 16th and 17th centuries remained largely limited to a set of coastal settlements. In spite of successive entries into the sertão, the main centers of occupation remained the port cities and towns that maintained frequent contact with the kingdom and through which goods were sold, especially sugar.
As a result of the development of a plantation economy in the hinterland of these settlements and the need to be close to the ports in order to guarantee the treatment of local products, cities such as Salvador and Rio de Janeiro or the towns of Olinda and Recife were those that grew most during the 17th century, concentrating a larger demographic base of European origin. It is this population that the present communication aims to analyze. Focusing on characteristics such as naturalities in the kingdom, locations in Brazil, and occupations, the intent is to understand how their profile contributed to and was influenced by the needs of the local labor market, namely sugar production and trade, pacification of the territory against indigenous and European peoples, and evangelization and maintenance of the population’s morals.

Carlos Manuel Baptista Valentim (Museu de Marinha-PT) – A MARITIME MUSEUM IN A PORT CITY: THE MARINE MUSEUM IN LISBON

Abstract-The paper aims to discuss how a maritime museum can express the memory and culture of a port city community. First of all, what themes do you want to give “voice” to, what discourses do you implement in your permanent exhibition. Furthermore, what heritage you have in your keeping and what pieces are incorporated into your collections.

Silvio Cesar Alves Rodrigues Rio de Aterro – The Compulsory Transformation of a Natural Landscape

Abstract-The placid shores, points of arrival and departure, of riverine and estuarine places by virtue of their abundant nature, have commonly been and are the subject of rectification, dismantling, dismantling, embankment, overlay. Due to such practices, according to Amador (1992), “no other city in the world could match Rio de Janeiro in terms of the environmental changes produced, the destruction of so many diverse ecosystems, and the liquidation of cultural, historical, and scenic values. That said, the goal is to present some aspects and effects of this “creative destruction”, compulsory, on Guanabara Bay.

José Milton Ferreira da Silva (Fac. Letras/UPorto/PT) – CAPOEIRA AND ITS TRANSOCEAN HERITAGE

Abstract – Appearing in historical accounts from the 17th century, Capoeira is the heir and promoter of a culture that crossed the oceans to generate a synod of two cultures that named it Afro-Brazilian. What was understood as fight-dance and folklore until the middle of the last century, today is also perceived as a set of interdisciplinary knowledge that involves History, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Theology, Art, Physical Education, and Health, among other sciences. Of the various themes that can be discussed about the Afro-Brazilian struggle, the Roda de Capoeira – Brazilian Cultural Heritage (IPHAN – 2008) and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO – 2014) – is the best known and is from where many elements can be extracted that identify Capoeira as a pedagogical and inverted construction of the body. It is in this cultural and corporal dynamic of the capoeiristas that one can perceive multiple realities that interact for the production and transmission of knowledge concealed in the movement of the body itself. The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate Capoeira as a school that expresses the history of its existence by elucidating, in a way of contesting and inverting the body, the influences suffered by the Portuguese and Catholic colonization, as well as the maintenance of the African culture that awakens the fight for freedom against all politics that still oppress the black population and the most vulnerable classes of our times.

CoopMar Network Meeting – 3:00pm (South Am.) – 6:00pm (PT)
Organization:
LACES – Laboratory of Regional History of Espírito Santo and Atlantic Connections/PPGHis/UFES
Luiz Cláudio M. Ribeiro, Amélia Polónia, Carlos Eugênio Lemos, Paulo Cesar Ruas 0. Santos