Rotary Club de Teresina Piçarra: 40 anos de história (1979-2019)

Abstract

The objective of this proposal was to conduct an analysis of the history of the Rotary Club Teresina Piçarra, with the aim of trying to understand its trajectory in its four decades of operation. It was assumed that the understanding established in this regard is the result of the relationship between the past and the moment in which this analysis was constructed, the expectations of its members, the current socioeconomic context, the political circumstances, the theoretical and methodological conditions of the authors and, finally, an indescribable universe of aspects that ended up composing this past, including those that will be brought by each future reader of this text. The research carried out was exploratory in nature, since its initial purpose was to produce information about the establishment and maintenance of this institution in Piauí and, more specifically, in Teresina. The sources used in the research were bibliographical, documentary, oral and other in nature. Authors such as Boudieu (1995), Koselleck (1979), (2001), Halbwachs (2013) and Bloch (2001) were used as theoretical support. For this analysis, the book was organized into two intertwined parts: a written part, which dealt with aspects of the formation of Rotary International, the sociopolitical contexts of the institution's creation and expansion in Brazil, the installation of the first Rotary unit in the state of Piauí and the creation, installation and development of the Rotary Club of Teresina Piçarra. The other, image-based, was made up of photographs produced during this period and others that integrate the universe of symbols of the institution. The manuscript is divided into three chapters, an introduction, a prologue and three portfolios, with the last chapter being prepared with a view to concluding, which presents itself as a challenge for the present and the future.