Memories and identities: patrimonialization and the uses of the past

Abstract

This article, instigated by the proposals of the dossier “History and Heritage: theoretical and methodological questions”, analyzes the concept of patrimonialization and the invention of spaces of memory associated with public policies for the protection of cultural goods and tourism. On the one hand, it seeks to detect the dangers that surround the professionals of the Human Sciences and of the Social and Applied Sciences that act in commissions or councils that aim the safeguard of the patrimonial assets. And, on the other hand, it establishes the theoretical and methodological connections to problematize the question of the tipping and registration of patrimonial, tangible and intangible assets in the São Vicente Beach Resort, located on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. The option for the epistemological debate articulated to theempirical is relevant, since it offers subsidies for the reflections on the social responsibility of the researchers that integrate commissions and councils, to which the power of decision is instituted to elect patrimonial property or to condemn it to oblivion and undoing.