Game of scales in Landscape Archeology: regressive cartographies from Piauí to the city of Teresina, between toponyms and platbands (1761-1938)

• Grant number: 23/18288-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: March 25, 2024
• End date: May 24, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno
• Grantee: Wilmar Moura de Souza Junior
• Supervisor: Renata Klautau Malcher de Araujo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/16852-5 - Game of scales in Landscape Archeology: regressive cartographies from Piauí to the city of Teresina, between toponyms and platbands, BP.MS

Abstract

Focusing on the Captaincy of Piauí and its transition to a Province, this research project seeks to respond to the motivations that led to the change of the capital from Oeiras to Teresina (formerly Vila Nova do Poty), focusing on economic dynamics and political disputes, in through the logic of circulation in the landscape. As methodological procedures, a game of interdependent scales (macro territorial, regional and intra-urban) will be chosen, seeking to empirically demonstrate the strategic role of Piauí between the Sertões do Norte, Maranhão and the Amazon, as well as the changes in the policy of urbanization from the colony to the Empire and the motivations that led to the movement between capitals. With the aim of strengthening the research that has already been carried out in the country, we requested this external research internship, at CHAM - Centro de Humanidades affiliated to Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal, to sum up the materials cataloged to date, seeking to bring unprecedented sources for understanding this topic, which can still be considered a gap within the field of the history of urbanization and urbanism.