Banca de DEFESA: GABRIEL DA SILVA FREIRE

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STUDENT : GABRIEL DA SILVA FREIRE
DATE: 22/08/2025
TIME: 19:30
LOCAL: Canal do PPGHC no Youtube
TITLE:

“SO THE HABIT BECAME SAFE, IN SEARCH OF BEAUTY”: THE CASE OF THE TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR FISH FARMING IN THE NORTHEAST AND THE NATURE IN THE SERTÕES (1932-1937)

KEY WORDS:

Technical Commission for Fish Farming in the Northeast; nature; posthumanism; History of Sertões

PAGES: 117
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation focused on the Technical Commission for Fish Farming in the Northeast, under the authority of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works, between the years 1932 and 1937, during the government of Getúlio Vargas. The main objective of the research was to discuss the Commission’s activities in the northeastern sertões during this period in order to reflect on more-than-human hinterlands, drawing from critiques of modern anthropocentric rationalism. The study unfolded into analyses concerning the construction of landscapes by the Commission’s members, the ways in which the category of time was used by scientists to characterize sertanejo spaces, and the tension between the sertanejo ways of inhabiting and relating to nature and the model proposed by CTPN members. From a theoretical standpoint, the dialogue between History and Anthropology is considered fundamental to the posthumanist framework that underpins the research, since the scientific knowledge produced by the expedition members is treated as ethnographic in nature, made possible through direct contact with the sertanejo environment, which they sought to institutionalize through technical knowledge. Methodologically, the research is grounded in the evidential paradigm proposed by Carlo Ginzburg, as the methodological path followed was marked by the search for traces of the scientists presence in sertanejo spatialities, as well as of the human and non-human alterities with which they established relations during their journeys. A variety of sources was used, including travel report books, scientific bulletins, legislation, and newspaper articles. As a result, the study proposes a form of History that not only speaks about the sertão (understood as an object to be accessed), but listens to and interacts with the sertão and its ways of life in their own language, bringing forth new worlds beyond anthropocentric frameworks.

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