Banca de DEFESA: JOSÉ ANTÔNIO DA SILVA NETO

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STUDENT : JOSÉ ANTÔNIO DA SILVA NETO
DATE: 19/12/2025
TIME: 18:30
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

The formation of President João Pessoa Avenue as a space of sociability and memory in Cajazeiras, Paraíba (1936–1980)

KEY WORDS:

Space of Sociability; Space of Memory; President João Pessoa Avenue; Cajazeiras

PAGES: 130
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates how President João Pessoa Avenue, located in the center of the city of Cajazeiras, in the backlands of Paraíba, came to be constituted as an important space of sociability and memory throughout the 20th century. This avenue served as a reference point for gatherings, celebrations, carnival parades, political rallies, and strolls, commonly frequented by individuals seeking leisure, entertainment, and social interactions whose primary purpose was the pleasure of interaction itself. This type of relationship was described by the sociologist Georg Simmel (2006) as sociability, an aspect of social organization and functioning that, as proposed by the historian Maurice Agulhon (2016), is a fruitful historical object. João Pessoa Avenue gained prominence starting in the early decades of the 20th century, with the city’s modernization and the development of local commerce, becoming a space of consumption occupied by movie theaters, shops, bars, and other commercial establishments. However, over the final decades of the century, the avenue was emptied in terms of sociability practices and came to be remembered by the population as a space of memory and recollection (Assmann, 2015). The present study uses newspapers, memoirs, and oral testimonies as sources, through which we seek to record the transformations experienced by the city of Cajazeiras, as well as the reworking of the past through the memory, subjectivity, and lived experience of the individuals who inhabited it. Our analysis begins from an understanding of space as an entity in transformation, a product of human practices, thoughts, and actions, constituting a symbol of the identity and collective memory of those who dwell within it.

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