Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MATEUS SAVIO RODRIGUES DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MATEUS SAVIO RODRIGUES DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 26/08/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual (Google Meet)
TITLE:

INSTIGATORS OF CHAOS: The Grossos Issue from the Perspective of the Use of the Press by Local Elites (1901-1905)

KEY WORDS:

Grossos Question; hinterland; local elites; representation; newspapers.

PAGES: 61
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

The Boundary Question between Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará (1894-1920), also known as the Grossos Question, was a territorial dispute characterized by multiple interests and forms of political action at different scales. This work, however, does not seek to encompass the full extent of the conflict. Rather, it proposes to analyze how, through the press, local elites instrumentalized the conflict to defend different political and economic interests between 1901 and 1905. The actions of these figures position them as active agents and present Grossos as an active sertão – a place of sociability – breaking with the notion that it was a passive territory facing state projects. For this analysis, we used as sources the periodicals Jornal do Brasil (1901-1905), O Paiz (1901-1904), Correio da Manhã (1901-1905), A Notícia (1901-1903), Gazeta de Notícias (1901-1905), present in the collection of the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, and O Mossoroense (1902-1905), present in the Lauro da Escóssia Historical Museum, in Mossoró-RN. The reading of these sources follows the perspective of Mouillaud (2012), Chartier (2003) and Barros (2023), who understand and discuss the newspaper as a communication vehicle crossed by editorial interests, in which the contents are organized and the discursive strategies are elaborated with the objective of producing meanings aligned with their political, economic and social objectives. In dialogue with this approach, we draw on the discussions of Antonio Moraes (2003), Wright Mills (apud Perissinotto; Costa; Massimo, 2023) and Chartier (2002) to understand, respectively, the concepts of sertão, local elites and representation.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 2329277 - JAILMA MARIA DE LIMA
Externa à Instituição - LUCILVANA FERREIRA DOS SANTOS BARROS - UNIFESSPA
Presidente - 1934542 - PAULA REJANE FERNANDES