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Accepted Paper:
Sandro Dutra e Silva (Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Universidade Evangélica de Goiás)
Paper short abstract:
The history of Central Brazil was marked by a biogeographical conquest. This study analyzes the history of agricultural colonization in Central Brazil, considering the Cerrado and Amazon biomes, and its areas of ecological transition involving history, ecology, and national and global development.
Paper long abstract:
The conquest of the interior of Brazil was also a biogeographical conquest. Historically the Brazilian interior was demarcated and defined within a political project of agricultural and demographic expansion. The biogeographical conquest of Central Brazil is intertwined with the history of the colonization of areas involving different biomes, particularly the Cerrado and the Amazon. The Cerrado is the biome with the largest territorial coverage in Central Brazil, and agronomic development policies for Central Brazil have historically been closely associated with the edaphic and agricultural conquest of this biome. But another territory was also established in the agricultural, scientific, and environmental history of Central Brazil, which involves not only the Cerrado and Amazon but also areas of ecological transition. This research aims to analyze the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Cerrado-Amazon transition areas, using as references the relationship between history, ecology, and regional development policies. We aim to analyze the historical transformations in the landscape of the transition zone/interconnection of these biomes, and the policies, institutions, and other actors involved in national development programs between the 1940s and 1970s. Historically analyzing this area of ecological transition aims to contribute both to the understanding of territoriality, with its specific spatial, social, and historical dynamics, as well as understanding of the political and ecological asymmetries between these biomes. Our argument is that these asymmetries are constituted and explained historically, and they can enlighten us about the complexity of perceiving biomes and the different socio-environmental conflicts that exist between them.
Global Agrarian Colonization: Imagined Futures, Space, and Expertise along the 20th Century
Session 1 Monday 19 August, 2024, -