HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA DA DITADURA MILITAR: SENTIDOS ATRIBUÍDOS POR ADULTOS E JOVENS DO MUNICÍPIO DE BARREIRAS-BA

Abstract

This dissertation is linked to the research project Center of Memory, Documentation and Reference in Education of Young and Adults (EJA), Popular Education and Social Movements of the State of Goiás, denominated Living Memory Center. It intends to analyze how a group of adults and young people from Barreiras-BA feel about the period of military dictatorship within the national and local scope. It aimed to understand the historical context in Brazil and in the municipality of Barreiras, from 1964 to 1984; to identify the process of constitution of military dictatorship in Barreiras. Several authors were considered as significant in this study. About memory studies Halbwachs (2006) and Ricoeur (2007) were used, among others; about Oral History, Paul Thompson (1998) was the main author; and on the military dictatorship in Brazil, Gaspari (2014), Fausto (1995) and Germano (2011) were mainly used as reference. This study is part of a qualitative research methodology, since it seeks to privilege the history, memory and specially, the individuals’ life histories, as explanatory components of descriptions and meanings attributed to the reality and the life condition they lived. It is guided by the historic- dialectical method, by the relational perspective and in Oral History authors. Finally, it was concluded that the meaning attributed by the students about the military dictatorship in Brazil is something vague and without any historical consistency, and referring to Barreiras, it was surrounded by the collective memories built around the importance of 4º BEC. It is also observed that, in relation to the elderly, there are contradictions about the memory about this period, some referring to the military dictatorship as something positive while others demonstrate the dictatorial and repressive character of the regime.