Justiça de pilcha : representações do meio ambiente cultural do poder judiciário no estado do Rio Grande do Sul e as audiências crioulas (2006-2012)

Abstract

This research aims to approach Gaucho traditionalism as a historical-cultural phenomenon within the Judiciary Branch of Rio Grande do Sul. The study of traditionalism in the Judiciary allows us to understand how the ideology of traditionalism acts in the search for expansion and maintenance of its cultural hegemony, either through the appropriation and replacement of Judiciary symbols or in their re-signification – including the very concept of justice in the popular imagination. For the research, the Crioula Hearings will be used, which were held in the Judiciary of Rio Grande do Sul between the years 2006 to 2012. The terms of hearings of the lawsuits that were the subject of the hearings were used as research sources, as well as news from the press sector of the Judiciary Branch of Rio Grande do Sul about the phenomenon. The hearings were held in Rio Grande do Sul, especially in the Districts of Frederico Westphalen, Carazinho, Ijuí, Encruzilhada do Sul and Pedro Osório. As a research problem, there is the question of whether the holding of Creole hearings demonstrated cultural interference of Gaucho traditionalism in the hearings, symbols and decisions of the Judiciary Branch of Rio Grande do Sul during the time frame studied. As hypotheses, firstly, that the holding of the Crioula Hearings had a purely folkloric character, without any interference in the judicial processes or in the Judiciary Branch of Rio Grande do Sul. Rio Grande do Sul's Judiciary Power through traditionalism, adapting them to the social imagination and including them in its symbolic universe. By objectives, one has to study regionalism through the Judiciary; understand the use of cultural representation objects by the Judiciary; to study the Gaucho traditionalism from the Creole Audiences; verify the appropriation and resignification of symbols of the Judiciary Power and the concept of justice through traditionalism; find the existence, or not, of interference of the MTG's ideological ideals in the judicial sentences of the verified sources. For methodology, we used the Content Analysis (Bardin) and Discourse Analysis (Orlandi and Maingueneau). With such methodology, we sought to achieve the research objectives, considering how, through cultural representations and rituals, traditionalism presents the gaucho as a defender and guarantor of justice.