Democratização da política cultural: debate sobre o desenvolvimento e inclusão pelo Programa Cultura Viva

Abstract

This dissertation adresses the theme of cultural policies and the centrality they acquired from Lula Government in 2003. At that time, especially from the Cultura Viva Program and its main action, the Pontos de Cultura, cultural policy became to be conceived as an important instrument of social inclusion. The hypothesis tested based on the premise that the Cultura Viva Program, consolidated during the Lula I government, diversified Brazil’s cultural demands through the adoption of an expanded concept of development, providing greater breadth to regional projects and connecting culture to inclusive development in the country. An attempt was made to establish a debate about practical implications for social inclusion provided by the expansion of the concept of development in the formulation of the Cultura Viva Program. Therefore, we sought to describe the history of the Ministry of Culture, debate the cultural policy implemented by the Lula I Government, to present the Cultura Viva Program and its main action, the Pontos de Cultura, and review the theoretical framework regarding the expanded concept of development to based on the theoretical contribuitions of Celso Furtado and Amartya Sen. The methodology adopted consisted of the analysis of two official documents from Ministry of Culture regarding the Cultura Viva Program. This analysis was divided into two stages: firstly, the Content Analysis method was applied, along the lines recommended by Laurence Bardin. Therefore, anchored in the development theories presented by Celso Furtado and Amartya Sen, the keywords to be searched for in the corpus of analysis were defined. In the second moment, practical data was addressed, that is, the results verified in the program evaluation document, as well as their implications for the implementation of social inclusion. The result of the analysis confirmed the occurrence of an expanded understanding of the concept of development in the two documents of the Ministry of Culture, a stance that transformed the cultural policies of that period into an important instrument for strengthening Brazilian cultural diversity, as well as an expanded process of social inclusion.