O siqueirismo e a "invenção" do tocantins:

Abstract

This work investigates the political uses of the past on the process of creation and autonomy of the state of Tocantins in the electoral campaign of José Wilson Siqueira Campos (PSDB), candidate for the fourth term of governor of the state in the general elections of 2010. Siqueira Campos belongs to a political elite and is considered, in the face of the “official” historiography, one of the precursors of the third autonomist movement in the former north of Goiás. Political personalism and the incorporation of a political myth were founded through the “repetition of the past'' through invented traditions in their speeches and official pronouncements, such as the idea of the political myth of “father-founder” or “builder-civilizer” in this process of territorialization of the newest state in Brazil. In the 2010 election campaign, the siqueiristas re-signified its political corpus through the use of some digital-social media, such as YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, envisioned as strategies for the extension and media propagation of memory and his speeches from the past. This research, aimed at a qualitative approach, is theoretically and methodologically based on content analysis and a bibliographic review on Tocantins historiography, thus fostering an analysis of an interdisciplinary nature, anchored in the principle of Cultural Studies. As a result of the research, it is understood that siqueirismo incorporated new territorializations, according to the mechanism of use of platforms, among them, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, which were envisioned as a potential political strategy for the remembrance of the past and the “improvements” past Siqueira Campos, with the attempt to (re)establish a social imaginary in the voters about the very construction of the official historiography of this territory, which is, above all, biased by the constant reproduction of the discourse of separatist protagonism in the north of Goiás. In addition, these speeches end up serving as a political corpus through the hypothetical constitution of Tocantins identity, state symbols and political monuments constituted, above all, in the post-1988 period, in order to legitimize the new territorialization and geographicity of power. The Siqueira’ status quo served to maintain the power of this political actor over time, either through traditional and charismatic domination and political uses of the past that were re-signified and used greatly in the 2010 general elections.