Entre antigos e novos traços: convergências e divergências acerca do patrimônio edificado laranjeirense à luz das políticas públicas

Abstract

This research unwinds through the vision of heritage and city, seeking to comprehend how public policies on heritage are referred to in historical and academic documentation related to the city of Laranjeiras/SE. Referencing a theoretical and empirical study, the investigative work was a qualitative approach. To achieve the aimed objective, the study was outlined into the field of material heritage, focusing its investigations to the built heritage of the historic centre of Laranjeiras and its representation in heritage public policies. The data collected from the Urban Plan of Laranjeiras (1975) and the Participatory Master Plan (2008) was investigated through textual discourse analysis, as well as the corpus extracted from an exploratory survey in the Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). The gathered results point at theoretical and political advances towards the comprehension and acknowledgment of the built heritage cultural references of Laranjeiras. Nevertheless, although heritage is a social asset, such advances are still placed distant from the community and their public appropriation. Therefore, possible guidelines were drawn in order to contribute and/or provoke reflections on the reverberation between the community and the public policies aimed at the built heritage of Laranjeiras/SE.