Direito fundamental à memória: o caso dos moradores da extinta praia da Vera Paz

Abstract

In 1999, employees of the Companhia Docas do Pará (CDP), in Santarém-PA, informed to roughly 20 families residing in the Laguinho neighborhood about the construction of the terminal fluvial de granéis sólidos, by the multinational Cargill (a compound of harbor and grain storage structures) and the "necessary” eviction, within a month, of the residents. At that time, there was a beach called by the residents as “Praia da Vera Paz”, however, Cargill's buildings and their environmental and sociocultural impacts led to the disuse of the beach. Because of this, this study emerged, inserted in the subject of the right of remembrance and dignity of the human person, with the following problem: the cultural heritage built in the set of amazonian oral narratives of the residents of Laguinho neighborhood can be an instrument to strengthen the citizenship? The object of this study is the relationship between oral narratives, as a cultural heritage in Santarém, and the promotion of citizenship based on the realization of the right of remembrance. The general objective will be to understand if the set of amazonian oral narratives of the residents of Laguinho neighborhood, in Santarém-PA, can be an instrument for strengthening citizenship and the dignity of the human person. The specific objectives are linked to a) knowing the historical overview of the traditional Vera Paz beach in Santarém-PA; b) understand the notions of citizenship and human dignity and c) analyze the set of amazonian oral narratives of the residents of Laguinho neighborhood and its implication in strengthening citizenship and human dignity linked to memory as a fundamental legal asset. Such elements will serve to understand the following hypotheses: 1. The loss of the Vera Paz beach and the change of the space that had recreation, entertainment, neighbors relationships and even the link of subsistence production as a proposal, resulted in the loss of citizenship parameters of families who lived in the Laguinho neighborhood and 2. The loss of “Praia da Vera Paz” also negatively affected citizenship in the Santarém-PA region. The methodology used will be based on the corpus collected in the ethnographic study entitled “Saudades da ‘Veroca’: Memórias da Praia da Vera Paz antes do Porto da Cargill, Santarém/PA”, carried out by GOMES et al. (2018), carrying out a research of descriptive and explanatory nature, proceeding to a bibliographic-documentary examination. Through the research, it was concluded that the act of collecting the oral narratives of riverside families who lived by the beach and of gathering the photographic records made by the residents of the former Vera Paz beach will serve to protect the memory of local history. and encourage more ethnographic studies, as well as encourage future documentation on the right to memory of these residents, the habits and customs of the community, before the burial of the beach.