Daily life, press and politics: the symbolic construction of the city of Goiânia through the newspaper O Popular

Abstract

This article will discuss the relationship between the press and the urban space in the symbolic construction of the city of Goiânia. This study will focus on the creation of the newspaper O Popular until the official inauguration of the city in 1942. For that, we will make a brief review of the political rise of Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, the project to transfer the capital of Goiás and the creation of the newspaper O Popular. We will highlight how this diary introduced the reader to leisure options in this new urban space and the promotion of its cultural baptism. Finally, we will see how the daily reported the “campaign pro-bandeirante” as a symbolic approximation strategy between the new capital and the new project. As we will see, this newspaper fulfilled two roles in the daily life of the city of Goiânia: i) as a news organ of the dynamics of this new city and ii) as a political propaganda organ for the alignment of local elites around the modernization project of the Estado Novo.

Keywords:
City; News; Adverstising; Representation; New State