A implementação da Lei Aldir Blanc em Aquiraz/Ceará: uma avaliação da política de cultura na pandemia de Covid-19

Abstract

This research discusses cultural policy, aiming to evaluate the effects of the implementation of the Aldir Blanc Law (No. 14,017, of June 29, 2020) on the lives of cultural workers and on the local socioeconomic dynamics of the municipality of Aquiraz, in Ceará. From a methodological point of view, bibliographic research was carried out on the trajectory of cultural policies in Brazil, demarcating their advances and setbacks, constituting a case study that adopts a qualitative approach. As a data collection instrument, questionnaires and interviews were applied with representatives of the circus, theater, crafts, literature, audiovisual, visual arts, gastronomy, cultural products, and traditional dance segments, together with technical professionals from the department where the actions resulting from the Law are allocated and who followed the challenges of that period. The evaluation framework used was the critical- dialectical evaluation developed by Ozanira Silva e Silva (2013). The research was based on studies by Minayo (2001), Bardin (2016), Franco (2005), Cunha (2006), Brandão and Streck (2006), Barbalho (2019), Calabre (2020), Semensato and Barbalho (2021), among others. The results show that, in the perception of the interviewees, the Aldir Blanc Law improved the living conditions of cultural workers, having played a central role in this population, which was directly affected during the pandemic. At the same time, it strengthened the cultural market and the organization of the cultural system in the municipality of Aquiraz.