Name: FÁBIO RODRIGO CIRINO LEITE
Publication date: 12/09/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CAMILA BUENO GREJO | Examinador Interno |
| LEANDRO DO CARMO QUINTÃO | Examinador Externo |
| UEBER JOSE DE OLIVEIRA | Presidente |
Summary: This research aims to analyze a violent insurrection that took place in the village of Santa Izabel on October 6, 1897, in the newly established state of Espírito Santo. The uprising sought to overthrow the municipal government and proclaim a new one in the nearby locality of Campinho, amidst the institutional instability that plagued the young Brazilian Republic proclaimed in 1889. Despite swift state repression, the rebels briefly achieved their goal by removing the incumbent governor and seizing the municipal records, which were transferred to Campinho. The event was marked by intense violence, resulting in the arrest and criminal prosecution of seventeen insurgents. This study seeks to demonstrate how the so-called Sedition of Santa Izabel—largely forgotten in the local historiography—reflects broader processes of elite reorganization within a newly forming republican institutional framework, interpreted through Reinhart Koselleck's analytical categories of space of experience and horizon of expectation. Drawing on judicial records, notarial documents, and contemporary newspaper reports, the study adopts a prosopographical approach and applies the concepts of political field and political capital as proposed by Pierre Bourdieu. Additionally, it engages critically with the theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, and Jacques Le Goff to argue that the contemporary Germanic identity constructed in the region of the former Santa Izabel Colony emerged from the consolidation of a post-Sedition power bloc, thereby silencing more complex narratives involving the diverse subjects who historically inhabited the territory.
