The strategies of recomposition and rearticulation of the elites of the German ethnic group in post-Estado Novo Brazil: An analysis in the light of historical sociology and sociology of elites

This article, based on the theoretical-methodological perspectives of Historical Sociology and Sociology of Elites, aims to analyze the recomposition and rearticulation of the elites of the German ethnic group in Brazil after the Estado Novo (post-1945). The research is based on historical literatur...

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Autor: Voigt, Lucas
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/36583
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/36583
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Estado Novo
Germanness
Elites
Historical sociology
Sociology of elites.
Germanidad.
Élites
Sociología histórica
Sociología de las élites
Germanidade
Sociologia histórica
Sociologia das elites.
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Sumario:This article, based on the theoretical-methodological perspectives of Historical Sociology and Sociology of Elites, aims to analyze the recomposition and rearticulation of the elites of the German ethnic group in Brazil after the Estado Novo (post-1945). The research is based on historical literature review, interviews and document analysis. At first, I analyze the Estado Novo and nationalization campaigns as an “event”, responsible for producing changes and transformations in the practices associated with “Germaness” in Brazil. In the following, I present some of the initiatives of rearticulation of the elites of the German ethnic group in post-Estado Novo Brazil: the Comitê de Socorro à Europa Faminta, the restructuring of the Lutheran Church, the rearticulation of 25th of July Movement, the foundation of 25th of July Cultural Centers and the Federation of 25th of July Cultural Centers. Finally, I analyze the “outcome” of this historical process, that is, the systematization and institutionalization of a “space of practices of ‘German’ folklore in Brazil”, in the 1980s. The discussion made it possible to establish a causal relationship between the nationalization campaigns and the initiatives of rearticulation of ethnic elites and promotion of German ethnicity in Brazil.