Diversidade cultural e democracia

Trata-se de reflectir sobre a livre convivência multicultural, em todas as suas formas, mesmo as socialmente mais intensas, num memso espaço públlico, onde o Estado laico garanta diversidade, igualdade e liberdade de ritos sociais no plano da sociedade civil. Esta é uma questão vital em tempos de globalização e de migração generalizada de pessoas, culturas e processos numa só sociedade de fenómenos intensos de miscigenação cultural, nos seus diversos patamares. Pode uma sociedade democrática garantir equilíbrios, igualdade e liberdade lá onde convivem visões de mundo e ritos sociais aparentemente contrastantes? De que modo? Com que instrumentos políticos é possível regular esta multiculturalidade? E nesta vasta multiculturalidade existirá um mesmo fio condutor que a remeta à unicidade fundamental da existência humana nos seus nexos vitais primordiais?

Desire for memory, desire for museums: the experience of the Memory Hotspots

Considering the principles of the National Museum Policy, created in 2003, the Brazilian Museums Institute – Ibram supports and encourages the development of museum practices and processes aimed at rewriting the history of social groups which were deprived of the right to narrate and exhibit their memories and their heritage. As effective action, in 2008, the Department of Museums and Cultural Centres (Demu/Iphan) – which gave rise to Ibram in January 2009 – started the Memory Hotspots Programme, with the main goal of fostering wide popular participation in matters related to social memory and museums. The Memory Hotspots Programme was inspired in and directly influenced by the Ministry of Culture/MinC, which created the National Programme for Culture, Education and Citizenship (Living Culture). The purpose of this Programme is to contribute to make society conquer spaces, exchange experiences and develop initiatives that foster culture and citizenship, in a proactive manner. The partnership struck between civil society and the state power gave rise to Culture Hotspots, inspired in the anthropological “do-in” concept, idealized by the then Minster Gilberto Gil.