Análise do desenvolvimento da cultura a partir de políticas públicas no estado do Amazonas (2004-2021)

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the relationship between public cultural policies and the development of culture in the state of Amazonas (Brazil). In the fight against social exclusion, several policies emphasized the recognition, strengthening and guarantee of cultural rights, with respect and appreciation of identities about Brazilian cultural diversity, its forms of organization and its institutions. Based on the methodological strategy of documentary analysis about cultural political agents (social organizations and municipal, state and federal governments), between 2004 and 2021, the investigation highlighted the cultural spheres promoted by political agents, in order to show how was designed the access to culture. Data analysis, therefore, took place through content analysis, with emphasis on the categories fostered by political actions. The management of cultural policies in the Brazilian state of Amazonas favored cultural events, many of which took place in the capital and in large urban centers. Culture was identified as an uninterrupted historical process of cooperation and dispute over symbolic capital, so that the better-established cultural agents gained more political power to raise resources and promote cultural actions. Due to cultural pluralism, cultural agents are distinct, interdependent, overlapping, vertically and/or horizontally connected, it was noted that, from time to time, the development of cultural actions was compromises by interruptions of policies in the implementation phase, reformulation of structures administrative, delays and reductions in financial transfers in times of economic austerity, as well as the absence of a cultural political agenda. In the state of Amazonas (Brazil), in a scenario of instability, uncertainty and even abandonment, multiple independent cultural agents joined together in favor of production and access to cultural goods and services.