Patrimonialização de centros históricos: estudo de caso da construção da narrativa do dossiê de tombamento do Centro Histórico e Paisagístico de Jaguarão-RS

Abstract

The Built Cultural Heritage in Brazil comprehends an intervention of the official narrative on a territory, one can also observe that it exposes, as a social fact, as well as the territory itself, several expressions and layers of socio-historical significance in certain cases, conflictive among each other, which may or may not manifest to compose this official narrative. This study is situated as part of the topics that discuss the relationship between the notion of urban space and the construction of heritage narratives about historic centers, when comprehended as built material heritage. Its objective is to show who were the subjects elected as authorized sources of information and valuation of the historic center of Jaguarão-RS, featured in the sources of information consultations and in the dossiers prepared for the Historic Center of Jaguarão Land Listing Process (2008-2013). For this purpose, the methodology employed was a case study with instrumental interest in order to develop a content analysis. The analysis was conducted through the collection of documentary data added to the process of heritage protection the historic city center of Jaguarão. They were interpreted based on new data and information collected on: the perspective of the subjects involved; the context to which such documents refer; and the gaze of local and regional intellectuals. In the process of listing the historic and scenic center of the city of Jaguarão, there was a selection of the social memory to be preserved, and the lack of plural and effective social participation on the construction of heritage narratives in the case of the historic center of Jaguarão may have been one of the causes for that. One noticed the absence of social groups beyond these spheres: politics, academics and media. In the content analysis, it became evident that the interests listed by these groups are grounded in the architectural languages, the integrality and conservation of the heritage set, the economic interest in relation to cultural tourism, and cultural representation of a city on the border with Uruguay. Therefore, there are gaps regarding the agents’ interest for a plural and effective social participation in the decisions that activate and legitimize the cultural heritage of Jaguarão-RS.