Name: MICHEL BINDA BECCALLI
Publication date: 08/05/2025
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| OMAR SCHNEIDER | Advisor |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
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| ANDREA BRANDAO LOCATELLI | Examinador Interno |
| IVAN MARCELO GOMES | Examinador Interno |
| MARCELA BRUSCHI | Examinador Externo |
| OMAR SCHNEIDER | Presidente |
| TARCÍSIO MAURO VAGO | Examinador Externo |
Summary: This thesis analyzes the relationships among city, bodies, and sensibilities through the strategies and tactics involved in shaping the republican citizen in Vitória, Espírito Santo, during Jerônimo Monteiro's administration (1908-1912). Grounded in the perspective of New Cultural History, the research addresses urban interventions carried out under the "Uniform Plan for Improvement and Beautification of the City of Victoria," accessed through the reconstruction of material and documentary vestiges left by urban changes. The study argues that urban reforms had a pedagogical character aimed at educating the senses and forging sensibilities aligned with republican ideals of civility, hygiene, and progress. Urban transformations, such as street widening, sanitation, creation of green spaces, and regulation of commerce and circulation, are examined not merely as physical interventions but as fundamental symbolic and cultural devices in constructing new standards of behavior, beauty, and health. Methodologically, the research employs the evidential paradigm, analyzing diversified historical sources, including contemporary newspapers, official documents, photographic collections, and police inquiries. This approach enabled identifying and interpreting citizens' daily practices, revealing resistances and adaptations to official norms, understood in this study as tactics of permanence and negotiation within urban spaces. The thesis demonstrates that urban modernization in Vitória during the First Republic represented an ambitious project of sensory and sensibility education, intending to mold citizens consistent with republican expectations of order, progress, and civility. However, far from being a linear or homogeneous process, this formation was permeated by daily resistances and negotiations, highlighting the intrinsic complexity of the republican project.
Keywords: City; Bodies; Sensibilities; Republican education; Vitória.
