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This text is about the possibility of speaking about an event from the temporality “one of these days”. It discusses speaking about the experience of becoming a quilombo in the community of Arrojado, in the city of Portalegre, Rio Grande do Norte, using other temporalities that are not represented as present, past and future. Operating using the post-structural theory, mainly based on the thoughts of Derrida (2013; 2010; 1994), Haddock-Lobo (2020; 2013a, 2013b) and Butler (2018a; 2018b; 2017), what is sought in writing is to draw attention to the fact that speaking about the experience is never simply information. In fact, speaking about an event is also inserted in the dimension of what is heard in the research, and not just what happened. Based on an autobiography in deconstruction (Santos, 2022; 2023) without any chronological attempt for what is narrated, the aim is to explore the constructions of experience and memory, and to point out a method of telling the research that does not involve bringing speeches or narratives to prove data; therefore, an opening to other temporalities and writings.  

This paper analyzes divorce lawsuits filed in Parnaíba, Piauí, Brazil, during the 20th century. Our aim was to explore everyday family life, focusing on the gender issues that involved the litigants. The lawsuits proved to be true revelations of private life, bringing to light the many difficulties encountered within the marriage. The methodology used was the analysis of court cases and the Civil Code of 1916.  

DALMÁS, Carine; VIEIRA, Ana Lívia Bomfim (org.). Pós-Graduação Profissional em Ensino de História: pressupostos, experiências e desafios. São Luís: EDUEMA, 2023

This article discusses the challenges faced by black female professors in Brazilian higher education, highlighting the persistence of racism and sexism. Through interviews with faculty members of a public university, we evidence their struggle against isolation and for visibility, in addition to their crucial contributions to the debate on diversity within the university environment. The findings point to the urgent need for anti-racist policies and institutional recognition, aiming for a truly equitable academic culture.

REIS, Alessandra. Meia lua em mim: a Falciforme em versos. Belo Horizonte: [s. n], 2020. 136 p.

With the migration process from the Northeast to the Southeast, since the Getúlio Vargas government (1930-1945), networks were formed among migrants regarding the Northeastern community and a new type of textile production popularly known as “Sulanca.” These garments incorporated fashion patterns characterized as being suitable for work or special occasions, such as baptisms or weddings, and were considered the fashion of the poor. These garments originated in the 1950s, using raw materials discarded by industries in São Paulo, which were returned to the Northeast in trucks associated to the migration process, especially to Pernambuco. From the 1960s onwards, it spread throughout the Northeast, remaining there until the 1990s. Using oral history methodology and photographs, we analyze this process of production and consumption of clothing in the agreste and coastal areas of the Northeast. Based on theoretical constructs from sociologists and historians, we analyze the relationships between migration, textile production, and a typology of clothing from the Northeastern agreste and sertão.

This article aims to reflect on the expectations, lived experiences, and working conditions, emphasizing the health deterioration of men and women who repeatedly migrated from Piauí to the Amazon, where they were subjected to forms of labor analogous to slavery. The context encompasses the process of peasantry expropriation in Brazil’s Northeast and the displacement of rural workers to the Amazon region, as they sought to build a life and eventually return to their homeland. We focus in particular on return migrations. Material precariousness and hope emerge as the main motivations for this movement. The growing number of reports of contemporary slavery or forced labor, as internationally recognized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) especially in the migrants’ destination areas, allows us to identify and critically examine their living conditions, the pace of work imposed to meet production targets (which often leads to illness or even death), as well as the strategies of daily resistance. Oral history is used as a methodological approach to analyze these experiences.

O Projeto Acervo de História Oral, da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (FBN), tem como objetivo registrar as memórias dos trabalhadores da instituição e que se encontram aptos à aposentadoria. Para que possamos traçar um panorama dos caminhos percorridos pelos servidores, desde a sua entrada na FBN, as discussões sobre a formação das coleções, os processos técnicos, a entrada dos servidores durante a ditadura civil-militar, são cotejadas com a metodologia da História Oral, tal qual preconizada por Marieta de Moraes Ferreira e Verena Alberti. Nesta proposta de artigo, ao mesmo tempo em que discutimos os caminhos até chegarmos ao Projeto Acervo de História Oral FBN, faremos uma reflexão sobre duas entrevistas, das quais destacamos as relações de trabalho desenvolvidas a partir da entrada das servidoras na instituição, bem como as contribuições deixadas por entre estantes, fichas e catálogos: a participação das servidoras no desenvolvimento e guarda das coleções que estiveram sob suas responsabilidades.

This article is an excerpt from a broader study aimed at analyzing the memory of debates surrounding the objections and proposals of historians and researchers in history education in the face of educational reforms, particularly those targeting secondary education. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on a theoretical-methodological discussion of lived and transmitted experiences as both object and source of investigation, establishing connections among studies in the fields of social/collective memory, History teaching, and Oral History. The epistemological framework is informed by Halbwachs (2004), Aróstegui (2004), and Magalhães (2014), with a focus on the categories of Social Memory, Experience, and Oral History. The composition and methodological procedures of the analyzed documentary corpus are based on oral sources, requiring dialogue with the field of Oral History. However, it is concluded that the complexity of historicizing lived experiences accessed through Oral History demands further discussion in order to address the theoretical and methodological specificities inherent to this type of source.

This research aimed to identify the school experiences of the first teachers at the School of Physical Education (ESEFPA) related to the subject of Physical Education, from primary to secondary education. To achieve this, oral sources were used, obtained through interviews with four teachers, based on the theoretical-methodological principles of Oral History. From the interpretations of the teachers' memories, it was possible to reconstruct fragments of the history of Physical Education in schools in the state of Pará during the 1950s and 1960s, related to who taught the classes, the knowledge of Physical Education at the time, and the methods applied in the lessons. It is noteworthy that Oral History contributed significantly to the developement of this research and, in this way, enabled the presentation of these narratives, which would hardly be known without such mediation.