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Ser gibraltarino: estudo exploratório sobre a cultura e identidade dos residentes de Gibraltar
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Este estudo de investigação foi desenvolvido no intuito de conhecer a complexidade cultural, a construção e a afirmação identitária dos residentes de Gibraltar. Devido à sua diversidade cultural, social, linguística e religiosa, e por ser um território de pequena dimensão com uma ubicação geográfica estratégica, Gibraltar usufrui hoje de excelentes condições económicas e sociais.
Tratando-se de um território dentro do continente europeu, onde ainda prevalecem certos vínculos coloniais, com um passado de conquistas e disputas de soberania (entre Espanha e Inglaterra), que ainda são percetíveis através da sua fronteira, despertou-nos a atenção o modo como os seus habitantes interagem e conjugam as suas múltiplas pertenças.
No desenvolvimento teórico, procuramos retratar alguns dos eixos pertinentes para esta análise, nomeadamente as conceções de cultura, as interações sociais, as fronteiras sociais e culturais, formas de mestiçagem e hibridismo, a pluralidade cultural, a identidade e a integração social, para tentar perceber em que consiste a identidade dos residentes de Gibraltar e a conceção do ser gibraltarino.
Em termos metodológicos, optámos por um estudo exploratório, devido à falta de trabalhos publicados anteriormente e concernentes à identidade gibraltarina, de caráter qualitativo, através da realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas a diferentes perfis de entrevistados/as residentes ou que trabalham em Gibraltar. Os resultados apontam para a importância que a diversidade cultural assume na construção da identidade gibraltarina. Considerando a imposição histórica das duas culturas, tanto a inglesa como a espanhola, e a influência das demais culturas dos residentes em Gibraltar, o gibraltarino encontrou uma forma particular de se integrar diante a sua própria diversidade cultural. Quanto mais diversificou a sua cultura mais complexificaram as formas identitárias, provocando, para além um sentimento comum entre os seus residentes, também um sentimento de partilha, de integração e tolerância, desprendendo também um sentimento de orgulho da sua própria diversidade. O ser gibraltarino é o resultado final das suas múltiplas pertenças que certamente continuarão a fazer parte da sua complexa forma de ser.
This research study was developed in order to know the cultural complexity, construction and identity of the residents of Gibraltar. Due to its cultural, social, linguistic and religious diversity, and because it is a small territory with a strategic geographical location, Gibraltar now enjoys an excellent economic and social conditions. In the case of a territory within the European continent where certain colonial claims still prevail, with a history of conquests and sovereignty disputes (between Spain and England), which are still noticeable across its frontier, it calls to our attention by the way its residents interact and meld their multiple backgrounds. In the theoretical development, we have tried to describe some of the relevant axes for this analysis, such as, culture conceptions, social interactions, social and cultural borders, forms of mixture, cultural plurality, identity and social integration, to try to understand the identity of the residents of Gibraltar and the design of the Gibraltarian identity. In methodological terms, due to the lack of previously published works concerning the qualitative Gibraltarian identity, we opted for an exploratory study, through semi-structured interviews with residents of different backgrounds and workers in Gibraltar. The results point to the importance of cultural diversity in the construction of the Gibraltarian identity. Considering the historical imposition of both British and Spanish cultures plus the influence of the other cultures of the residents of Gibraltar, the Gibraltarian has found a particular way of integrating itself in the face of its own cultural diversity. The more they diversified their culture, the more complex the identity forms, in addition to a common feeling among their residents of a sense of sharing, integration and tolerance, giving a feeling of pride in their own diversity. The modern day Gibraltarian is the result of multiple backgrounds and cultures that will certainly continue to be part of a complex way of being.
This research study was developed in order to know the cultural complexity, construction and identity of the residents of Gibraltar. Due to its cultural, social, linguistic and religious diversity, and because it is a small territory with a strategic geographical location, Gibraltar now enjoys an excellent economic and social conditions. In the case of a territory within the European continent where certain colonial claims still prevail, with a history of conquests and sovereignty disputes (between Spain and England), which are still noticeable across its frontier, it calls to our attention by the way its residents interact and meld their multiple backgrounds. In the theoretical development, we have tried to describe some of the relevant axes for this analysis, such as, culture conceptions, social interactions, social and cultural borders, forms of mixture, cultural plurality, identity and social integration, to try to understand the identity of the residents of Gibraltar and the design of the Gibraltarian identity. In methodological terms, due to the lack of previously published works concerning the qualitative Gibraltarian identity, we opted for an exploratory study, through semi-structured interviews with residents of different backgrounds and workers in Gibraltar. The results point to the importance of cultural diversity in the construction of the Gibraltarian identity. Considering the historical imposition of both British and Spanish cultures plus the influence of the other cultures of the residents of Gibraltar, the Gibraltarian has found a particular way of integrating itself in the face of its own cultural diversity. The more they diversified their culture, the more complex the identity forms, in addition to a common feeling among their residents of a sense of sharing, integration and tolerance, giving a feeling of pride in their own diversity. The modern day Gibraltarian is the result of multiple backgrounds and cultures that will certainly continue to be part of a complex way of being.
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Identidade Cultura Diversidade Mestiços Relações culturais Relações sociais Sociedade Gibraltar Identity Culture Diversity Mixture
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Gilotay, Sandra Regina Borges - Ser gibraltarino [Em linha]: estudo exploratório sobre a cultura e identidade dos residentes de Gibraltar. Lisboa: [s.n.], 2018. 189 p.