Tecendo narrativas: vivências estudantis na FAFI e UFPI durante a ditadura militar (1964 a 1975).

Abstract

In this study we analyzed the socio-cultural transformations experienced by students at FAFI and UFPI in Teresina between the years 1964 and 1975. The time frame was thus outlining because in this period Brazil was experiencing a cultural effervescence and, at the same time, a troubled political scenario marked by the military dictatorship that favored the emergence of a student militancy at the universities. Thus it was discussed how the college youth in Teresina experienced these years and welcomed new knowledge, practices, values and behaviors before the disciplinary discourse of military dictatorship and the cultural changes that emerged in the period. Therefore we analyzed the configuration of higher education in Teresina. Then we analyzed the tactics of resistance undertaken by young people to challenge the strategies of the military and ultimately how young people have connected with the news circulating in Brazil. Methodologically we used sources surveyed in the Public Archives of Piaui, O Dia Newspaper Archive, Cúria Metropolitana Archive. We used the newspapers O Dia, O Estado and O Dominical, and also used the methodology of oral history, collected interviews from people who studied at FAFI, aiming to understand how they signify their living and experience of that period. The work is set in the Cultural History, with the theoretical and methodological contribution of Michel de Certeau with his conception of tactics and strategies, Roger Chartier’s notion of reception, and Halbwachs to think through the issue of collective memory. Through this research it was able to see the specifics of the university militancy in Teresina, the struggles and tactics undertaken by students to challenge the established order and the juvenile behavior configured from receipt of the cultural changes experienced in Brazil.