O consumo e a cidadania: os desafios da historiografia em uma sociedade pós-moderna

Abstract

This paper discusses how consumption and citizenship can be perceived in a dichotomy established by the crisis of utopias at the end of the 20th century, in which consumption becomes the main characteristic of historiographic production and existence within the nation. In this sense, we present a discussion on how presentism and updatism, as analytical concepts of contemporary temporality, help to think and diagnose practices in which consumption overlaps citizenship and imposes on historiography a demand that prevents the construction of intervention projects in the fairer and more democratic present and future. We conclude that it is up to historians, as an alternative to this context, to politicize their narratives and adopt an ethical posture that seeks to understand the concept of postmodernity in its broadest way so that the logics established by late capitalism can be unveiled, exposing the historical wounds and using the past for practical purposes.