Sandro Dutra e Silva

The cerrado of Goiás in the literature of Bernardo Élis, from a viewpoint of environmental history

This article analyzes the representations of nature in the literature of Bernardo Élis based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of environmental history. Élis was part of a group of intellectuals whose literature presented the living conditions in the frontier of Goiás and the human relationships occurring in these landscapes. In these scrublands, the dramas of their characters are mixed with the physical environment of the cerrado region in a realistic narrative denouncing the living conditions in this isolated frontier area. In their dialog with literature, the fundamentals of this field of historiographic research can be adopted as analytical instruments, combined with concepts related to the integration between society and nature, such as the frontier and wilderness.This article analyzes the representations of nature in the literature of Bernardo Elis based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of environmental history. Elis was part of a group of intellectuals whose literature presented the living conditions in the frontier of Goias and the human relationships occurring in these landscapes. In these scrublands, the dramas of their characters are mixed with the physical environment of the cerrado region in a realistic narrative denouncing the living conditions in this isolated frontier area. In their dialog with literature, the fundamentals of this field of historiographic research can be adopted as analytical instruments, combined with concepts related to the integration between society and nature, such as the frontier and wilderness.

“Um pedacinho de outrora...”: memória de trabalhadores da Vila Fabril em Anápolis, Goiás (1950 – 1970)

O estudo foca as experiencias das vilas fabris no Brasil, e a reconstrucao da historia da Vila Fabril de Anapolis/Goias, nas decadas de 1950 a 1970. Objetiva apresentar indicios da historia da industrializacao no Brasil, com enfoque nas experiencias industriais e no cotidiano da vila de operarios em Anapolis. Essa historia nos remete as experiencias regionais e do Brasil no âmbito da eclosao da industrializacao, da organizacao sindical, e do processo de urbanizacao e industrializacao do interior do Pais. Em Anapolis, a Vila Fabril inicia-se com o Frigorifico Goias, receptora das fabricas de cerâmicas e olarias, e abastecimento de carne (charque), que nos anos de 1950 e 1960 atendiam as necessidades de construcao civil em Goiânia e Distrito Federal. Investiga, ainda, o seu declinio economico e as politicas publicas que proporcionaram a criacao do Distrito Agro-Industrial de Anapolis (DAIA). Utilizamos como fontes de investigacao os registros fotograficos, relatos orais e outras bases documentais. As imagens e os registros memorialistas foram entendidos como portadores de significados e de simbolismo, motivadores para estruturar e reconstituir a memoria do lugar e o registro de suas paisagens.

Devastação Florestal no oeste brasileiro: colonização, migração e a expansão da fronteira agrícola em Goiás

This paper examines the Environmental History of the expansion of the agricultural frontier and population growth in Goias, the central region of Brazil, and its connection to deforestation during the first half of the twentieth century. This paper aims to analyze the deforestation that occurred due to human settlement of the area, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, when the region experienced a large migratory flux, due to the colonization policy known as the “March to the West” (Marcha para Oeste). The territory studied here in this paper, the “Mato Grosso of Goias”, was an enclave of seasonal tropical forest amidst the Cerrado. This paper utilizes different sources such as travel accounts, official documents, legislation, newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, and scientific records, among others. The research carried out focuses on the first records of the formation of the forest, demonstrating the impact of migration and colonization policies and the sequential environmental devastation of the area.

Fronteira, História e Natureza: a construção simbólica do Oeste Brasileiro (1930-1940)

This article aims to present the discourses on the occupation of the Brazilian West in the publications of Cassiano Ricardo, Henrique Silva and Zoroastro Artiaga published in the magazines Cultura Politica (1941-1945), Informacion Goyana (1917-1935), Revista Oeste (1942-1944) and in other works published during the 1940s. Frontier and nature are the analytical categories the article deals with, from an Environmental History perspective. The analysis privileges the scientific and ideological perspectives present in the works studied, which allow for the identification of the symbolic construction of the Brazilian West.