Políticas públicas culturais para a juventude: estudo de caso em Santana de Parnaíba/SP

Abstract

The objective of this research is to understand what the particularities of the cultural public policies for the youth in the municipal are scope, from analysis of case study in the municipality Santana de Parnaíba-SP, from 2009. The field of study and analysis of public policies for youth has been exploited in Brazil since the 20th century. That area of knowledge needs more research and more descriptions. The main theoretical reflections used if substantiated in authors/works of José Pais (1990), Alexandre Barbalho and Rachel Gadelha (2013), Maria das Graças Rua (1998) and José Barros (2011). Through the discussion of concepts on the objective and subjective meanings of the term Youth and cultural policy concepts. Among the actions of public policies in the sector, was selected the Shed of youth to understand and verify the cultural activities offered to the youth of the city. Following methodological procedures, qualitative research was divided into five stages. The first step was the collection of data on the pages/sites on the internet; the second, was the preparation for the research field; in the third the data collection through field research; in the fourth stage, all the material collected was organized for analysis; Finally, in the fifth step, qualitative analysis was made of the data and information collected. Interviews were held with all the coordinators of Municipal youth Coordination, since 2009, including the Secretary who is in Office, the City Department of culture and tourism, from 2013. From analyses of interviews, there has been a trend of public managers in question, are your actions in relation to youth, from the tracks-groups defined by the National Youth Plan and the national youth Status. This study showed that the confrontation between urban and contemporary cultural actions of youth with traditional and actions established in the Centre of the historic city lie at one of the particularities which is the encounter between the change of culture and the culture of change.