Colonialismo, instrumentalização da pobreza e mercantilização dos recursos naturais da Amazônia
Abstract
This thesis seeks to discuss how the discourse on global warming and climate change
reproduces colonialist ideas about the people and nature of the Amazon. Still, it seeks to
understand how these ideas are discursively mobilized, in the sense of subsidizing the
implementation of environmental public policies. Therefore, two analytical references are
used to examine this problem. The first concerns the process of colonization and
colonialism, as they are fundamental aspects of the socio-historical construction of both
the peoples and the nature of the Amazon. The second refers to the institutionalization of
the so-called social and environmental issues which, as they were consolidated within the
framework of Modernity, made the process of social formation of peoples and social
construction of nature invisible. Thus, the work's hypothesis is that the notions of
traditional peoples and of an exotic nature – both formulated in the colonial period – are
the main ones to be mobilized by environmentalism to legitimize environmental public
policies in the region. Theoretically, the thesis is based on the idea of caboclo societies as
a way of dialoguing with the category of traditional peoples. In addition, it mobilizes
references from ecological economics, environmental economics and the Marxist critique
of political economy, to discuss the idea of nature. The methodological resources used
were bibliographic references, document analysis, interviews and participant observation.
The thesis did not seek to confirm its hypothesis or draw definitive conclusions, but rather
to expand the possibilities for discussion on this topic.
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