Da dominação colonial à colonialidade do saber: efeitos do determinismo ecológico dual sobre a formação social no Brasil

Resumo

This article contains reflections on the effects of the dual ecological determinism on the Brazilian social formation. Elaborate from literature sources, the research is based on the critical eye of the postcolonial thought, colonial semiosis, as in society-nature perspective of Environmental History, it proposes to deconstruct the foundations of domination in the dual representation of nature in Brazil. Since the colonial period the representation of nature in Brazil occurred in a dual perspective: provider haven of wealth, and/or limiting factor to society; both representations are tributaries of ecological determinism, founded mainly on the Aristotelian idea of the tropics as a limiting factor to societies, and in the Theory of the degeneration. This dualism originated from the utilitarian and externalized view of the society-nature during the process of colonial domination. Influenced the construction of the "Brazilian be‖, since the identities of the Brazilian people were associated with the notion of wild forests, ecological environment and natural resources, operating in the way the Brazilian sees himself, and is seen. The results explain that, if before the signs of colonial domination disguised as "green destination" were external, in this are internalized in the media, literature, science and politics, offering mental barrier to the identification of the potential and limits of ecological environment, as well as the development of a society with high sustainability.

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Palavras-chave

Representação da natureza, História ambiental, Dominação, Semiosis colonial, Colonialidade, Representation of nature, Domination, Colonial semiosis, Environmental history, Coloniality

Citação

LOIOLA, Sérgio Almeida; CARDOSO, Ludimila Stival; ARAÚJO, Alexandre Martins; NAZARENO, Elias. Da dominação colonial à colonialidade do saber: efeitos do determinismo ecológico dual sobre a formação social no Brasil. RA'E GA: o espaço geográfico em análise, Curitiba, v. 35, p. 38-67, dez. 2015.