\Development\, \environment\ and \culture\: critical notes about the environmental debates regarding the Amazonian indigenous people

Author(s)

Ana Beatriz Miraglia

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2007-09-18

Examining board members

Julio Assis Simoes; Dominique Tilkin Gallois; Rui Sergio Sereni Murrieta

• Advisor: Julio Assis Simoes

Abstract

In the last decades, the dissemination through out the world, of environmental and cultural uncertainties related to the debates taking into account the reflection over the idea of \"development\", is excising the need to review and reformulate both the theoretical and the methodological aspects in certain disciplinary fields of knowledge. Also, in the elaboration of the manners to structure interventions in social, political, cultural & environmental arrangements, together with the manners in which they are comprehended, and in which in some instances they are altered, to avoid, neglecting their multiple specifics. These are clusters of relations that have to provide for accommodation of a conflictious nature, distinctive regimes of truth, dissimilar institutional configurations, associated to diverse manifestations of power, which imply innovative means of interpretation, as well as original ways of implementing their practical application. Bearing in mind this new overall scenario, the problematical object of this research is to approach the subject, considering three discursive themes, which flow through out the state of affairs as mention above: \"development\", \"environment\" and \"culture\". The proposed study has as its main goal to argue the enunciation of these three objectives in two analytical stratus. Initially, relate the discussions of how the \"environmental\" and \"cultural\" tribulations where connected to the debates over possible redefinitions of the conception of \"development\" in the last 60 years, beginning with the geo political policy context emerged post Second World War events. Thereafter, investigate and discuss the recent landmarks regarding the three discursive dimensions referred to above, when associated to the formulation of socio-environmental public policies where the concern is at stake in the indigenous Brazilian Amazon. The intentions are to demonstrate how certain historical obstacles, interrelated to the effort of redefinition of the term \"development\" - due mainly to the recurring cultural and ecological criticism to its econometrical meaning - resurface in today\'s Amazonian political and environmental debates regarding the Amazonian indigenous people, connecting thus the two analytical spheres of this research. (AU)