Entre o colapso e a resistência: coleção documental do 8 de janeiro de 2023

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to collect, systematize and identify a comprehensive set of documentary sources to elaborate a guide and inventory of documentary sources related to the events of January 8, 2023, understood as a milestone of the contemporary Brazilian democratic crisis and the disputes around historical memory. The spatial-temporal cut focuses on the attacks on the headquarters of the Three Powers of the Republic, which took place in Brasilia, on January 8, 2023, as well as on the documentary records produced between 2023 and 2025 about the episode. The methodology adopted articulated historiography and archival procedures, involving heuristic survey, collection, save, cataloguing, technical description, contextualization and thematic coding of the sources, with attention to the archival principles of preservation, provenance and accessibility. The research was based mostly on digital and native-digital sources, such as institutional reports, surveys, official documents, journalistic articles, images, videos and posts on social networks, complemented by academic productions and various institutional records. The proposal is based on the concern with the dispersion, instability and risk of erasure of digital sources related to January 8, seeking to understand how these conditions affect access, preservation and the possibility of future historical analyses of the event. It is considered that the (de-re)organization and (non)systematization of these sources directly influence the narratives that can be constructed about the Brazilian democratic crisis. It is concluded that the elaboration of the inventory goes beyond the technical character of documentary cataloging, configuring itself as a political and ethical practice of preservation of democratic memory. The work highlights the importance of bringing History and Archivology closer together and points to the need to incorporate digital preservation skills into historiographical training, especially in the field of History of the Present Time. The documentary collection systematized through an inventory contributes to the organization of sources, to the expansion of access to documentation and to the strengthening of research on democracy in contemporary Brazil.