Military government and opposition communication in the guerrilla of Araguaia: professionalism, planning and power versus resistance and amateurism

Authors

  • Eduardo Reina Universidade Metodista de São Paulo São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil
  • Camila Escudero Universidade Metodista de São Paulo São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil

Keywords:

Guerrilla of Araguaia, military dictatorship, communication, journalism.

Abstract

This article aims to rescue the communication strategies of the military government and resistance in the Araguaia guerrilla"™s episode. Using bibliographical and documentary research, we start from the idea that in the conflict studied, military forces engaged in professional communication attitudes to society, with a focus on narrative control; while PCdoB guerrillas maintained a primary and inefficient attitude toward communication. As main results, we pointed out that this disparity led to the creation of a historical version of the mass media with a focus on the military, overlapping the narrative of the opposition, which made the official version of the facts prevail and the narratives of the defeated be forgotten, as it"™s pointed jointly, the concepts of daily narrativity (CERTEAU, 1998), the collective memory (HALBWACHS, 2006), identities and their representation (HALL, 2005; SODRÉ, 2000).

Author Biographies

Eduardo Reina, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil

Mestrando em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, com bolsa Capes – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. Graduado em Jornalismo, atuou como diretor de redação, editor executivo, editor, colunista e repórter em jornais na capital e interior, além de assessor de imprensa em entidades, empresas e autarquias

Camila Escudero, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil

Doutora em Comunicação e Cultura pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Metodista de São Paulo.

Published

2019-05-27

Issue

Section

Dossiê Jornalismo, liberdade de expressão e censura: 50 anos depois do AI-5