Name: HANNAH ALVES ALCURE E ARAÚJO
Publication date: 12/04/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| LEANDRO DO CARMO QUINTÃO | Examinador Externo |
| PEDRO ERNESTO FAGUNDES | Examinador Interno |
| UEBER JOSE DE OLIVEIRA | Presidente |
Summary: Attilio Vivacqua was a prominent politician, lawyer, reformer, and intellectual from Espírito Santo, Brazil. He navigated through important moments in the history of Espírito Santo and Brazil, holding various positions in regional and national political institutions. The objective of this work is to rescue and analyze Attilio Vivacqua's political trajectory from the 1920s, when he entered the field of institutional politics, until his death in 1961 – a period considered the pinnacle of his professional political engagement. In this way, we will delve into some aspects of his family origins and early years of youth to better understand the historical environment in which Attilio Vivacqua was born and raised. This distinguished. By gathering a diverse set of primary sources, our focus is on constructing the life trajectory of Attilio Vivacqua, being mindful not to fall into the traps of biographical illusion, as described by Pierre Bourdieu. We aim to investigate how Attilio's professional and political experiences in spaces such as the state legislative congress and the federal Senate contributed to the formulation of his political thought. The speeches and publications of the subject will be studied using tools like Content Analysis and Linguistic Contextualism, seeking to understand how Attilio Vivacqua mobilized, selected, and manipulated theoretical resources from other thinkers in shaping his ideas, utilizing the notion of a toolbox proposed by Angela Alonso. Drawing upon the concepts of space of experience and horizon of expectation by Reinhart Koselleck, we will seek to comprehend how Vivacqua and his contemporaries interpreted temporal experience and what meanings they attributed to the categories of past, present, and future. Additionally, we will employ the notion of the historical narrative of overcoming backwardness, proposed by Rafael Cerqueira do Nascimento, to investigate how Vivacqua positioned himself in this interpretation of regional past to legitimize his political projects. Through this work, our intention is to contribute to the construction of a critical historiography of Espírito Santo, by studying the trajectory and political thought of one of the most prominent Capixaba politicians of the 20th century.
